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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
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The PRE F A C F.
Wwhich the Church hath used to express her
Sense by, stil retainine the same fundamen.
tal Article ofchree Perlons in one undivided
Fssence, but explaininqe it in such a manner.
a5 to mahe each Person to have a Deculiar
and proper Substance of hisorn.
This cave so creat an advantaze to the
Author of those Treatises, that in a little
time, he set forth his Notes with an Ap. Considerat.
pendix in ansiver to this ne Explication
On The P.X-
plication of
WVherein he charees him with Hlerelie, Tri. Therrinicy.
theilm and Contradiction. The very same P. 12.
charges Whichhave been since improved and
carried on by others; I wist L could sar.
without any unbecomine leat or Reste-
ctions.
But Y Pai nou examine hou far these
charces have any cround, so as to affect the
Doctrine ofthe Trinity, Which is the chief
end our adversaries aimed at, in heapine
these Reproaches upon one Who appear d so
early, ard vith so much zeal to defend it.
We are theresore to consider these things:
T. That a Man may be very righi in the
Belief ofthe Article it self; and vet may be
mistaten in his Explication of it. And
this one ot his keenest Adversaries frecly
aetnovledees. For he plainly distinguistes
betveen the fundamental Article and the
manner os explamins it, and affirms, That
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