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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 169, page id 727097563:0241
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the Doctrine of the Frinier.
the Worid vas made By the Son, and that Toh. 1. 3.
Flcb. L. 2, 10
al thines vere created by him in Fleaven Col. 1. 16
and in Farth, it be realonable to under-
Cand them ot creatine nothine: Por at-
cer all cheir Shifts and Livasons IE COmES
to nothine ac last. Buc thar nemay sce,
hom muchchey are contounded wichthele
places, we may oblerve,
L. They Cometimes Pay, thac Where
the Creation of au thines is spoken of, it is
not meant ef Christ but of6od. For in the
ansiver they sive to the place of the Epi
Ale tothe Colossins, ther havethese ords:
For By himal thines ivere created, are not Hist. of ihe
spoken of Christ, but of 60d: ehe sense os
the Wwhole Context is this, The Ford Christ
is the most perfect Imase of the invisible
Cod, the frst born fromthe dead of every
Creature; for, OCololtans, by him, even
By the invisible 60d ivere alt thines created:
they vere not from al eternity, nor rose
fromthe concourse of Atoms, but all of them–
whether thines in Deaven, or thines in
Farth; Whether Thrones, or Dominions, or
Principalities, or Povers, are Creatures,
and vere by God created, Whois before them
al, and by him they alt consist. ThIS IS a
very tair Concestion, that ot whomloe.
ver these mords ore spolien he must BC
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2. But
OniL. P. 38.
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