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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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A Vindication of
Theleare Postulata (o agrecable ro sense
and common reason, that P chinkc it an
altrone to human Nature to g0 about t0
prove them. But to Bew what usc We
areto makre ot them; we must consider
that it cannor De denied, chat the Doctrine
of the Trinity did meet wich oppolition
very carty in the Christian Church, e(De-
ciallr amone the Tevist Christians; L
mean those whro Prictly adhered eo thc
Lar ot Moses, alter the ABoAles had de
clared ehe trecdom of Christianstrom the
obligation oF it. Thele (a5 I MaII MeW
Dy and by) soon alter the dispersion ot
the Church oF Ferusalem, sachered into
a boc DV chemlelves, distinct FrOM FMAL
evhrich consisted ot Fers and Gentiles, and
as theretore called the Carholick Christi-
an Church. And this separate bodr, Whe-
ther called Fbionites, Nazarens, Or Mi-
neans, did noc only difter from the Catho-
lick Christian Church, 25 to the necestitu
of observine ehe Law oF Moses, bur like.
vise as to the Divinitr ot our Saviour,
Which chey deniec althoush they pro-
Fessed to believe him as the Christ Or pro-
miled Messias.
Theodom Theodoret hach rith very soodjudsmene
placed che Herelies of the Arst ages oFthe
Chrictian Church, under tro distinct
heacs
Paeret. b. l
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