A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity with an answer to the late Socinian objections against it from Scripture, antiquity and reason, and a preface concerning the different explications of the Trinity, and the tendency of the present Socinian controversie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

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A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity with an answer to the late Socinian objections against it from Scripture, antiquity and reason, and a preface concerning the different explications of the Trinity, and the tendency of the present Socinian controversie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

Author

Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.

Publication

London :: Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ...,

1697.

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Trinity -- Early works to 1800.

Socinianism -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• table of contents
• ERRATA.
• A DISCOURSE In VINDICATION of the Doctrine of the Trinity: WITH An ANSWER TO THE Late SOCINIAN Objections.
  • CHAP. I. The Occasion and Design of this Discourse.
  • CHAP. II. The Doctrine of the Trinity not receiv∣ed in the Christian Church by Force or Interest.
  • CHAP. III. The Socinian Plea for the Antiquity of their Doctrine examined.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the considerable Men they pretend to have been of their Opinion in the Primitive Church.
  • CHAP. V. Of their Charge of Contradiction in the Doctrine of the Trinity.
  • CHAP. VI. No Contradiction for three Persons to be in one common Nature.
  • CHAP. VII. The Athanasian Creed clear'd from Contradictions.
  • CHAP. VIII. The Socinian Sense of Scripture examined.
  • CHAP. IX. The General Sense of the Christian Church, proved from the Form of Baptism, as it was understood in the first Ages.
  • CHAP. X. The Objections against the Trinity in Point of Reason answer'd.