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

In these latter Ages of the World, the power and care of Jesus Christ reviving towards his Church in the Reformation of it, even the ruined heaps of its building have been again reduced into some tolerable order and beauty. The old Enemy of its peace and welfare falling hereby under a disappointment, and finding his travail and labour for many Generations in a great part frustrate, he is returned again to his old work of attacking the Foundation it self; as he is unweary and restless, and can be quiet neither Conqueror nor conquered; nor will be so, until he is bound and cast into the lake that burneth with fire. For no sooner had the Reformation of Religion firmed it self in some of the European Provinces, but immediately, in a proportion of distance not unanswerable unto what fell out from the first foundation of the Church, sundry Persons by the instigation of Satan ⟨p. 5⟩attempted the disturbance and ruin of it, by the very same errors and Heresies about the Trinity, the Person of Christ, and his Offices, the person of the Holy Ghost and his Grace, wherewith its first trouble and ruin was endeavoured. And hereof we have of late an instance given among our selves; and that so notoriously known, through a mixture of imprudence and impudence in the managers of it, that a very brief reflection upon it will suffice unto our present design.

In these latter Ages of the World, the power and care of Jesus Christ reviving towards his Church in the Reformation of it, even the ruined heaps of its building have been again reduced into some tolerable order and beauty. The old Enemy of its peace and welfare falling hereby under a disappointment, and finding his travail and labour for many Generations in a great part frustrate, he is returned again to his old work of attacqueing the Foundation it self; as he is unweary and restless, and can be quiet neither Conquerour nor conquered; nor will be so, until he is bound and cast into the lake that burneth with fire. For no sooner had the Reformation of Religion firmed it self in some of the Europaean Provinces, but immediately, in a proportion of distance not unanswerable unto what fell out from the first foundation of the Church, sundry Persons by the instigation of Satan ⟨p. 5⟩attempted the disturbance and ruine of it, by the very same errours and Heresies about the Trinity, the Person of Christ, and his Offices, the person of the Holy Ghost and his Grace, wherewith its first trouble and ruine was endeavoured. And hereof we have of late an instance given among our selves; and that so notoriously known, through a mixture of imprudence and impudence in the managers of it, that a very brief reflection upon it will suffice unto our present design.