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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 Frinir.
Doctrine ivere alvars esteemed Fleretickes
inthe Christian Church. And ehIsis a ve
ny cariy Testimonr ot tho Antiquitr and
general Reception oF it, becaule as one
was receired chio other as rejected 10
thac the Alertors oR it ivere accounted
Hlereticks. Andetre Sense oP eheChurch
is much better Knoun by such publicte
Acts, than by mere particulor Pectimo.
nies ol che learned Nen ot thole times
For Wrhen cher deliver the sense ot ehe
Church in luch publicke Acts, aII pertons
ore Judses oF the truch and Falstiood of
them ae the time when they are deliver d;
and the nearer ther eame to the Aposto-
licat Times, the greater is the Srensch oF
their evidence; this I ground on Tertul.
lians appealine to the ancient rule of Paith.
vtrich as univertal bnown and recei
ved in the Christian Church, and chac
Tuch Persons ivere loold on as Fereticks
eho differd fromit. Which beins lOve-
ry near cho ApoMles Times, its harcly
Possible to luppole, thac che whole Chri-
stian Church Bould De mistatren as to
what chey received as the rule of Faith
Which mas deliver d and explained at Bap-
im, and cheretore che generat sense ot
the Form ot Baptim must De understood
by all ihrorere amirted to it. Sochac
thC