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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 Doetrine of the Frinier.
Atrine before the time of Victor; it is
(0 fully confuted by che anciene Writer
in Pusebius, who mentions it, trom che Fuseb. L. 5.
Scciptures and the Arst Chriltian Writers
named by him, thac it doth noc delerve
tobe calcen norice of; especialr lince ne
Makes it appear, thac it vas noc heard ot
amone them at Rome, eill it ivas ArA
broached chere by Theodotus, as noc onlv
he, buc Tertullian aftirms; 25 I have al
readu oblerved.
Thus Thare clearty proved, that the
Voctrine of the Trinity, vas (0 Far trom
beins embraced only on the account of force
and fear, thac Phave Mewedthere vas in
the frst Ages of the Christian Churct, a
free and general consent in it, even when
ther vere under Persecution; aud atter the
Arian Controversie brokce out, vet thole
Whro deniedeto Pre existence, and Co- eter-
nitrotthe SonofOodvere univertally con-
demned; eventhe drian Party concurrine
inthe Synodsmention d by Fcilary. BuE
our 2nitarians are luch great Pretendersto
Reason, that ehis Arsumene trom the Au-
thoritr oF the whole Christian Church,
Cienities licele or nothins to them.
Therelore ther vould conclude AiII
that ther have thebecter ot us in point of
Reason, becaule they rell us, chat chey
have
6. 28.