A53669:183
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.
Is it that God is one; or that the Father is God, or the Son, or the Holy Ghost is so. If they deny, or oppose either of these, they have Testimonies and instances of divine Revelation, or may have, in a readiness, to confound the Devil and all his Emissaries. If they will not do so, if they refuse it, then let them know, that it is most foolish and unreasonable to contend about Expressions and Explanations of any thing, or doctrine, about the manner, respects, or relations of any thing, until the thing ⟨p. 117⟩it self, or Doctrine, be plainly confessed or denied. If this they refuse, as generally they do and will, which I speak upon sufficient experience, and will not be induced to deal openly, properly and rationally, but will keep to their Cavils and Sophisms, about terms and expressions, all farther debate, or conference with them, may justly, and ought both conscientiously and rationally to be refused, and rejected. For these sacred mysteries of God and the Gospel, are not lightly to be made the subject of mens contests and disputations.
Is it that God is one; or that the Father is God, or the Son, or the Holy Ghost is so. If they deny, or oppose either of these, they have Testimonies and instances of divine Revelation, or may have, in a readiness, to confound the Devil and all his Emissaries. If they will not do so, if they refuse it, then let them know, that it is most foolish and unreasonable to contend about Expressions and Explanations of any thing, or doctrine, about the manner, respects, or relations of any thing, untill the thing ⟨p. 117⟩it self, or Doctrine, be plainly confessed or denyed. If this they refuse, as generally they do and will, which I speak upon sufficient experience, and will not be induced to deal openly, properly and rationally, but will keep to their Cavils and Sophisms, about terms and expressions, all farther debate, or conference with them, may justly, and ought both conscienciously and rationally to be refused, and rejected. For these sacred mysteries of God and the Gospel, are not lightly to be made the subject of mens contests and disputations.