A53669:222
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 Method formerly proposed would require that I should take off the general Objections of the Adversaries against this Divine Revelation; as also vindicate some peculiar Testimonies from their exceptions. But because a particular opposition unto this Truth, hath not as yet publicly and directly been maintained and managed by any that I know of among our selves, though the denial of it be expressly included in what they do affirm; I shall leave the further confirmation thereof unto some other occasion, if it be offered, and it be judged necessary.
The Method formerly proposed would require that I should take off the general Objections of the Adversaries against this Divine Revelation; as also vindicate some peculiar Testimonies from their exceptions. But because a particular opposition unto this Truth, hath not as yet publickly and directly been maintained and managed by any that I know of among our selves, though the denyal of it be expresly included in what they do affirm; I shall leave the further confirmation thereof unto some other occasion, if it be offered, and it be judged necessary.
And this is that which the Faith of Believers rests in, as that which is plainly revealed unto them; namely, that Jesus Christ is God and Man in one Person; and that all his actings in their behalf are the actings of him who is God and Man; and that this Son of God, God and Man, is to be believed in by them, and ⟨p. 145⟩obeyed that they have Eternal Life.
What is farther added unto these express testimonies, and the full Revelation of the Truth contained in them in this matter, in way of explication educed from them, and suitable unto them, to the edification of the Church, or information of the minds of Believers in the right apprehension of this great Mystery of God manifested in the flesh, may be reduced to these heads.