A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity

<p>This is an unedited reprint of:</p> <p><i>In A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity: with an Answer to the late Socinian Objections against it from Scripture, Antiquity and Reason. And a Preface concerning the different Explications of the Trinity, and the Tendency of the present Socinian Controversie.</i>(1697)</p> <p>Stillingfleet (1635-1699) here enters a controversy that had begun in 1687 with the publication of Stephen Nye's <i>A Brief History of the Unitarians</i>, and had been stoked by many later controversial pamphlets and books, including <i>The Faith of the One God</i>, published by Thomas Firmin. (<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1878912">Available here</a>.)</p> <p>Stillingfleet defends traditional formulas about the Trinity from unitarians' charges of contradiction and poor fit with the Bible and early Christian tradition.</p> <p>For more historical works on the Trinity visit: <a href="http://trinities.org/books">http://trinities.org/books</a>.</p>