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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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AVindication of
the Members oF che Christian Churck
cannoc be suppoled better acquainted rith
any chins than che Doctrine they vere
baptizedinto. Hlere then ve have acon-
currence ot several publick Acts of tbe
Church. T. ThC Form of Baptism. 2.
The Rule of Faith relatine to chat Form
and explained ac Baprilm. 3. The Chur-
ches rejectins chole as Flerericks Who dit-
ferd trom ic: Wtrich Tertullian applies
to those who rejected the Trinity. And
Praxeas his Doctrine was then condem-
ned, noc by a particular Sentence, DuE
by che general sense of the Church ac
that time. For Optatus Milevitanus rec
konshrim amone che condemned Flereticks,
and jorns him rieh Marcian and Valen-
tinus, 25 Well as Sabellius, Who Follord
tuim in che Pame Herelie. Hou was this
Dostible, il Praxeas deliver d the true Do.
etrinc, and Tertullian broushe in a new O.
pinion a5 Schlichtincius Fansies. Tertullian
Wvas at thac time a declared Montanist;
and it he had introdued a new Doctrine
about the Triniey, ean re imagine thole
vould have been lilene abour it, Who
ivere Marr enoush uxon Terrullian tor
thelake oFhis Paraclete: Some of thefol.
lorvers ot Montanus atrervards sell into
che lame opmions wit Praxeas, aS The-
odoret
OptaC
Mil. l.