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

In especial there was one Cerinthus, who was more active than others in his opposition to the Doctrine of the person of Christ, and therein of the Holy Trinity. To put a stop unto his Abominations, all Authors agree that John writing his Gospel, prefixed unto it that plain declaration of the eternal Deity of Christ which ⟨p. 17⟩it is prefaced withal. And the story is well attested by Irenaeus, Eusebius, and others, from Polycarpus who was his Disciple, that this Cerinthus coming into the place where the Apostle was, he left it, adding as a reason of his departure, lest the building through the just judgement of God should fall upon them. And it was of the Holy, Wise Providence of God, to suffer some impious Persons to oppose this Doctrine before the death of that Apostle, that he might by infallible Inspiration farther reveal, manifest and declare it to the establishment of the Church in future Ages. For what can farther be desired to satisfy the minds of men, who in any sense own the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Scriptures, than that this Controversy about the Trinity and Person of Christ (for they stand and fall together) should be so eminently and expressly determined, as it were immediately from Heaven.

In especial there was one Cerinthus, who was more active than others in his opposition to the Doctrine of the person of Christ, and therein of the Holy Trinity. To put a stop unto his Abominations, all Authors agree that John writing his Gospel, prefixed unto it that plain declaration of the eternal Deity of Christ which ⟨p. 17⟩it is prefaced withall. And the story is well attested by Irenaeus, Eusebius, and others, from Polycarpus who was his Disciple, that this Cerinthus coming into the place where the Apostle was, he left it, adding as a reason of his departure, lest the building through the just judgement of God should fall upon them. And it was of the Holy, Wise Providence of God, to suffer some impious Persons to oppose this Doctrine before the death of that Apostle, that he might by infallible Inspiration farther reveal, manifest and declare it to the establishment of the Church in future Ages. For what can farther be desired to satisfie the minds of men, who in any sense own the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Scriptures, than that this Controversie about the Trinity and Person of Christ (for they stand and fall together) should be so eminently and expresly determined, as it were immediately from Heaven.