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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 Doctrine of the Priniey.
did aeree inthe Name oF Persons, asmOst
proper ro henitie cheir meanins, wrtrich
Wa5. That there vere three which had di-
Stinet Subsistences, and incommunicable Pro-
perties, and one and the same divine Fssence.
And Cince the Norion ot it is (0 vell un.
dertood, to henitie Cuch a Deculiar Senle,
I lec no reason irtir anr Mould scruple
the ulc olit. AS EO ItS not beine used in
Scripture, Socinus him selE despiles IC, and
allons it to beno goodreason. For Wwhen
Franciscus Davides objected, That the
terms of Fssence and Person vere not in Scri-
pture; Socinus tells him, That they expo. Socin. Vol.
Sed their cause who vent upon sucherounds ;
and that is the sense of them ivere in Scri-
pture, it vas no matter vhether the terms
vere or not.
Tlavins thus cleard the Norion oFthree
Persons, I return to che sense ot Scripture
abOuE these MaLTerS. And our Onitari-
ans telI us, that we oueht to interpret
Scripture othervise. Nor doth chat ap-
pear: Thes sive us very lictle encou-
easement to tollo cheir Interpretations,
l. 8. 778.
Wrhichare so ner, (0 Torced, lo different
trom che generat sense ot the Christian
Worid, and irhich I may Cay, restect 10
hissily on the Honour of Chrilt and liis
APOstles, i. c. by makins ule oF TuCM P. X.
PressiOnS,