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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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A Vindication of
rious as to God, and ihe Civit Maxistrate,
that it Bews no more than chac che Pamme
external Aes imas be uled eo both, buc
With such a different Incention as all men
understoodit. Whac it S. Paul name the
elect Angels in a Tolemn Obceltation to
Timorhr, covecher ich God, and the L ord
Tesus Christ: Whar can this prove, buc
chac e may call Crod and his Creatures
1o be Witnelles rogeclier or elie lame
thins: And (0 Tleaven and Farth arc
called to bear Wicnels against obctinate
Sinners: Mlay men theretore De baptized
in che name ot God and his Creatures:
The Spirit and Bride may lay come with.
out any Incongruity; but it mould have
been Aranse indeed, il ther had laid,
Come be baptized in the Name of ehe Spi-
rit and the Bride. S0 that chese Instan.
cesare very remore trom the purvole.
Bur chey Cay Tarther, That the ancients
of the first Four Bundred vears do not insist
on this place, to prove the Divinity or Per-
sonality of the Son or Spirit. AS 1O chC
trst Three hundred rears, Ilave siven an
acconne already; and as to the Fourth
Century, Lcouldnoc have chourhe, chat
chey vould have mention d ic: since
chere is (carce a Father of the Church in
charrime, whohad occasion to doiI, buc
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