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

This being received and admitted by faith, the Explication of it is, (2.) To be insisted on, and not taken into consideration until the other be admitted. And herein lies the preposterous course of those who fallaciously and captiously go about to oppose this sacred truth. They will always begin their opposition, not unto the Revelation of it, but unto the Explanation of it which is used only for farther edification. Their Disputes and Cavils shall be against the Trinity, Essence, Substance, Persons, ⟨p. 34⟩Personality, Respects, Properties of the Divine Persons, with the modes of expressing these things, whilst the plain Scriptural Revelation of the things themselves from whence they are but explanatory deductions, is not spoken to, nor admitted unto confirmation. By this means have they entangled many weak unstable souls, who when they have met with things too high, hard and difficult for them, (which in Divine Mysteries they may quickly do) in the Explication of this Doctrine, have suffered themselves to be taken off from a due consideration of the full and plain Revelation of the thing it self in Scripture; until their temptations being made strong, and their darkness increased, it was too late for them to return unto it; as bringing along with them the Cavils wherewith they were prepossessed rather than that Faith and Obedience which is required. But yet all this while these Explanations so excepted ⟨p. 35⟩against, are indeed not of any Original consideration in this matter. Let the direct express Revelations of the Doctrine be firmed, they will follow of themselves, nor will be excepted against by those who believe and receive it. Let that be rejected, and they will fall of themselves, and never be contended for by those who did make use of them. But of these things we shall treat again afterwards.

This being received and admitted by faith, the Explication of it is, (2.) To be insisted on, and not taken into consideration untill the other be admitted. And herein lyes the preposterous course of those who fallaciously and captiously go about to oppose this sacred truth. They will alwayes begin their opposition, not unto the Revelation of it, but unto the Explanation of it which is used only for farther edification. Their Disputes and Cavils shall be against the Trinity, Essence, Substance, Persons, ⟨p. 34⟩