THE Scripture-Doctrine OF THE TRINITY WHEREIN EVERY Text in the NEW TESTAMENT By SAMUEL CLARKE, D.D. That you will continually pray to God the Father, Exhort. in the Office for ordaining Priefts. The SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Printed by W. Wilkins, for JAMES KNAPTON, at THE PREFACE. T : HE Subject of the following Papers, is a Doctrine no way affecting the particular conftitution, order, or external Government of the Church, but in general of great Importance in Religion; a Matter not to be treated of flightly and carelesly, as it were by Accident only, after the manner of fuperficial controverfies about Words, or of particular occafional questions concerning the meaning of fingle ambiguous Texts; but which ought, when difcoursed upon at all, to be examined thoroughly on all fides, by a ferious A2 study study of the Whole Scripture, and by taking care that the Explication be confistent with it self in every part. I have, according to the Weight and Dignity of the Subject, confidered it throughout as carefully and diftinctly as I was able; and defire only, that the Reader, when he begins the Book, would peruse it All, and confider serioufly every Part, and compare the Whole of what is here faid, with other Whole Schemes, before he paffes his judgment upon it. |