A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

This Small Treatise hath no other design but thy Good, and establishment in the Truth. And therefore as laying aside that Consideration alone: I could desirously ⟨image 4⟩have been excused from the Labour of those Hours which were spent in its Composure, so in the Work it self, I admitted of no one thought, but how the things treated of in it, might, and ought to be managed unto thy spiritual Benefit and Advantage. Other designs most men have in writing what is to be exposed to public view, and lawfully may have so; in this I have nothing but merely thy Good. I have neither been particularly provoked, nor opposed by the Adversaries of the Truth here pleaded for; nor have any need from any self respect, to publish such a small plain discourse as this; Love alone to the Truth, and the ⟨image 4⟩welfare of thy soul, have given Efficacy to their importunity who pressed me to this small service.

THis Small Treatise hath no other design but thy Good, and establishment in the Truth. And therefore as laying aside that Consideration alone: I could desirously ⟨image 4⟩have been excused from the Labour of those Hours which were spent in its Composure, so in the Work it self, I admitted of no one thought, but how the things treated of in it, might, and ought to be mannaged unto thy spiritual Benefit and Advantage. Other designs most men have in writing what is to be exposed to publick view, and lawfully may have so; in this I have nothing but meerly thy Good. I have neither been particularly provoked, nor opposed by the Adversaries of the Truth here pleaded for; nor have any need from any self respect, to publish such a small plain discourse as this; Love alone to the Truth, and the ⟨image 4⟩welfare of thy soul, have given Efficacy to their importunity who pressed me to this small service.