An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity : being a chronological view of what is recorded concerning, the person of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the blessed Trinity, whether in the sacred writings, or in Jewish, Heathen, and Christian authors .. . eorthodox respi:cting the divinity of Christ, because theywere held in high esteem with Irenseus, bishop of Lyons,who, we know, believed that doctrine, and considered allthose who rejected it in the light of heretics. It willfollow, therefore, from these premises, according to thespirit and practice of those times, that Hegesippus musthave been sou
An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity : being a chronological view of what is recorded concerning, the person of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the blessed Trinity, whether in the sacred writings, or in Jewish, Heathen, and Christian authors .. . eorthodox respi:cting the divinity of Christ, because theywere held in high esteem with Irenseus, bishop of Lyons,who, we know, believed that doctrine, and considered allthose who rejected it in the light of heretics. It willfollow, therefore, from these premises, according to thespirit and practice of those times, that Hegesippus musthave been sound in the faith. Here then other witnesses, or, to speak moreexactly, here are four eminent Individuals, and a seriesof fifteen bishops in the most ancient church in theworld, who all seem to have been orthodox in the faith,on the great doctrines now in question, and who alllived before the time that Justin Martyr came forwardas a defender of the Christian faith. These, togetherwith the seven former, who ])receded them, make thenumber of witnesses in favour of orthodoxy in theprime of antiquity exactly twelve: witnesses suffici-ently numerous and circumstantial to determine whatwere then deemed the genuine doctrines ol S s 5*;^ AN APOLOGY FOR THE Part seventh. SECTION IV. The opinion of JlISTiN MARTYR concerning the PERSON of CHRIST,with a vindication of him from the charge of innovation. i»w(WWfiar«OJ^8;)»W«aw»— WE are how come to the time of Justin is necessary we should pause a little, and at-tempt to vindicate his character from the aspersions ofthe Socinians. For Dn Priestley asserts, that the doc-trines of the Trinity and divinity of Christ were neverknown and received in the Christian church till intro~duced by him from the Platonic school. * On the con-trary I affirm, with all possible confidence, that thepre-existence and divinity of Christ were clearlypreached by our Saviour himself—by St. Peter——and St. John. Nay,
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