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

An Appendix.

THE preceding Discourse, (as hath been declared) was written for the Use of Ordinary Christians; or such as might be in danger to be seduced, or any way entangled in their minds, by the late attempts against the Truths pleaded for. For those to whom the dispensation of the Gospel is committed, are debtors both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the Wise and to the unwise, Rom. 1. 14. It was therefore thought meet, to insist only on things necessary, and such as their faith ⟨p. 214⟩is immediately concerned in; and not to immix therewithal, any such Arguments or Considerations, as might not, by reason of the Terms wherein they are expressed, be obvious to their Capacity and Understanding. Unto Plainness and Perspicuity, Brevity was also required, by such as judged this work necessary. That design we hope is answered, and now discharged in some useful measure. But yet because many of our Arguments on the head of the satisfaction of Christ, depend upon the genuine signification and notion of the Words and Terms wherein the Doctrine of it is delivered, which for the Reasons before mentioned could not conveniently be discussed in the foregoing discourse, I shall here in some few Instances, give an Account of what farther confirmation the Truth might receive, by a due Explanation of them. And I shall mention here but few of them, because a large Dissertation concerning them all, is ⟨p. 215⟩intended in another way.

THE preceding Discourse, (as hath been declared) was written for the Use of Ordinary Christians; or such as might be in danger to be seduced, or any way entangled in their minds, by the late attempts against the Truths pleaded for. For those to whom the dispensation of the Gospel is committed, are debtors both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the Wise and to the unwise,