A53669:13
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The matters here treated of, are on all hands confessed to be of the greatest moment; such as the Eternal welfare of the souls of men, is immediately and directly concerned in. This all those who believe the Sacred Truths here proposed and explained, do unanimously profess and contend for; nor is it denied by those by whom they are opposed. There is no need therefore to give thee any especial Reasons to evince thy concernment in these things, nor the greatness of that concernment, thereby to induce thee unto their ⟨image 5⟩serious consideration. It were well indeed that these great, sacred, and mysterious Truths, might without contention or controversies about them, be left unto the Faith of Believers as proposed in the Scripture, with that Explanation of them which in the ordinary Ministry and Dispensation of the Gospel is necessary and required.
The matters here treated of, are on all hands confessed to be of the greatest moment; such as the Eternal welfare of the souls of men, is immediately and directly concerned in. This all those who believe the Sacred Truths here proposed and explained, do unanimously profess and contend for; nor is it denyed by those by whom they are opposed. There is no need therefore to give thee any especial Reasons to evince thy concernment in these things, nor the greatness of that concernment, thereby to induce thee unto their ⟨image 5⟩serious consideration. It were well indeed that these great, sacred, and mysterious Truths, might without contention or controversies about them, be left unto the Faith of Believers as proposed in the Scripture, with that Explanation of them which in the ordinary Ministry and Dispensation of the Gospel is necessary and required.
Certainly these tremendous Mysteries, are not by us willingly to be exposed, or prostituted to the Cavils of every perverse querist, and disputer; those [Greek or Hebrew]; whose pretended Wisdom, indeed ignorance, darkness and folly, God hath designed to confound and destroy in them and by them.