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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 Frinier.
this Couneil propounds an expedient as
most aerccable to elie general sense ot
che Chriction Church, viZ. That if any
relinguised their TTeresie and came back
to the Cburch, they Bould aste them the
Erced, and is ther found that ther vere
baptized in the Name of the Father, Son
and Foly Chost. they Bould have onty im-
position of hands, but if they did not con-
fess the Trinity, their Baptism vas decla-
red void. Now this I lool on as au im-
preonable Testimonr of the sense or the
Ante. Nicene Fathers, 2iz. Thar eliey did
not allo chat Baprim which as noc in
the Name of the Father, Son and TToly
Ghost; Or (ertrich cher underHtood tobe
thelame) in the confessionof the F’aith of the
Trinity. How then can our Dnitarians
pretend, That the Ante. Wicene Pathers did
noc alledce the Form of Baprism to prove
the Trinity: For the words are, If ther
do net ansuer eothis Trinitr let them bebap-
rized, Caith this plenary Conncil, 25S. Au-
sust in otren callS IL. What Frinity. do chev
mean: Of mere Names or Cyphers, or ot
one C0d and tuuo Creatures joyned in the
lame Form ot ords, a5 our Dnitarians
understand ic: Burther affirm, That the
Ancients of 400 vears do not insist on this Ausiver 10
ext of S. Marthew to prove the Divi-
MIi bP. 18.
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