THE

CATHOLIC DOCTRINE

OF A

TRINITY

PROVED DY ABOVE

AN HUNDRED SHORT AND CLEAR ARGUMENTS,
EXPRESSED IN THE TERMS OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURE,

Compared after a Manner entirely New,

AND

Digested under the Four following Titles:

1. The Divinity of Christ.

3. The Plurality of Persons.
2. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. 4. The Trinity in Unity..

With a few REFLECTIONS, occasionally interspersed,
upon some of the ARIAN WRITERS, particularly
Dr. S. CLARKE:

To which is added,

A LETTER to the COMMON PEOPLE, in Answer to some POPULAR
ARGUMENTS against THE TRINITY.

BY THE LATE

WILLIAM JONES, M. A. F. R. S.

RECTOR OF PASTON, IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, AND

NAYLAND, IN SUFFOLK.

Thou shult answer for me, O Lord my God. Psal. xxxviii. 15.

MINISTER OF

Not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor. ii. 13.

THE EIGHTH EDITION.

London:

Printed by R. Edwards, Crane-Court, Fleet Street;

FOR T. HAMILTON, 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND R. OGLE, 295,
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AND M. OGLE, WILSON STREET, GLASGOW.

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This TRACT is in the List of Books, dispersed by "THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN "KNOWLEDGE," as a Work well calculated to disseminate the Knowledge of evangelical Truth, at a Time, when the Enemies of our holy Faith are busy in their Endeavours to undermine it; and it may be had, by the Members, on the Terms of the Society.

PREFACE

TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

MY Bookseller having solicited me to republish this little Treatise, I have corrected the typographical errors of the last edition, and enlarged some passages of the work itself.

The attempt of a late Bishop of Clogher to propagate Arianism in the Church of Ireland, induced me to keep the Doctrine of the Trinity in my thoughts for some years; and I had a particular attention to it as often as the Scriptures, either of the Old or New Testament, were before me. This little book was the fruit of my study; of which I have seen some good effects already, and ought not to despair of seeing more before I die.

Many other observations have occurred to me since the first publication, which I should willingly have added. But some readers might have been discouraged, if I had presented them with a book of too large a size: and the merits of the cause lie in a small compass.

The republication of this work, though merely accidental, is not unseasonable at this time, when we are taught from the press,* (and the author seems to be very much in earnest) that the only sure way of reducing Christianity to its primitive purity, is to abolish all Creeds and Articles. But the great rock of offence with this writer, is the Trinity; to get rid of which, he would at once dissolve our whole ecclesiastical constitu..... tion and form of worship.

* In a new work, entitled The Confessional..