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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio XLVIII, page id 727097563:0054
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The PR F F A CF.
unite and loct more narrouly to their steps.)
do not charee their WVriters with a pro-
fessed desien to advance Deilm amons us;
but their vay ot manacine their Diputes,
is asif they had amind to servethem. And
such men Woho are Fnemies ro ait revealed
Relicion, could noi find ont better Tools for
their purpose than they arc. For they
keuou very well, that in such a Nation as
ours, which is really concerned for the Pro-
fession of Relision one way or other, there is
no openine professed Schools of Atheilm;
but the desien must be carrie d on under some
Phew ef Relicion. And nothine serves their
turn s wei, as settine up naturat Relicion
in opposition 10 Revealed. For this is the
vay hy derrees to loosen and unhince
the Faith of most Men, which with creat
reason is buile on the Scripture as the sur est
foundation.
But here it is fit to observe the severat
seps they take in order to this advancine
Deilm, and hou our Vnitarians have com-
alied with al of them.
I. The first point theyare to cain is, Thc
lellenins the Auchories of Scripture, and
if this be once done, they knou Mens Minds
wil he lest so rovine and uncertain, that
they wil soon falt into Scepricilm and InA-
delits
XLVIII