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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 Prinity.
But eoproceed ith the Christian DoxO- DeSp. San-
logies. Nothine. Paich S. Basil, Ball make et0, c. 10.
me forsahe the Doctrine I received in my
Baptism, when Ivas first entred into the
Christian Church; and I advise al others
to keep firm e0 ehat Profession of the TToly
Trinity, Which ther made in their Bapiism:
thatis, of the indivisible Dnion of Father-
Son and LLoly Chost. And, ashe Paith af-
terwards, by the Order of the Words in
Bapiism, it appears that as the Son is to the
Father, so the TColy Chost is t0 the Son.
For they are al put virhont any Distinction
or Number, which he observes acrees onty to
a mulritude. Fer By their Properties they
are one and one; vet by the Community ot
Essence the tvo are but one: and he makes
it his business to prove the FIoly Ghost +0
be a proper Object of adoration, as well as
the lather and Son, and therefore there
vas no reason to find fault with the DOxO-
loqu used in thac Church: and that, Firmi-
lian, Meletius and the Fastern Chrictians
acreed with them in the use of it, and so
didall theWestern Churches fromillyricum
+0 the Worlas end: andthis, he CaItH, was
by an immemorial Custom of al Churches,
and of the createst men in them. Nay, more
he Paith. st had been continued in the
Churches, from the time the Gospel had
Bect
l. 23.
3. 17
C. 18.