Excerpt from A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity: As Also, of the Person and Satisfaction of Christ; Accommodated to the Capacity and Use of Such as May Be in Danger to Be Seduced, and the Establishment of the Truth The difciples of our Lord jefus Chrili, bavin made that great confeflion of him, in difiin lion and oppofition unto them who accounted him only as a prophet, thou art Chrill; the Son of the living God, ' Matth. Xvi. 14, 15, 16. He doth on the occafion thereof, give out unto them the great chara ter of the church's {{liability and continuance, Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell {{hall not prelzail againit it, ' ver. 18. He is himfelf the rock upon which his church is built; as God is called the Rock of his people, on the account of his eternal power and immutability, Deut. Xxxii. 4, 18, 31. Pfal. Xviii. 2, and himfelf the fpiritual 'roc'k, stylish gave out fopplies of mercy and afliftance to the people in the wildest, nefs, 1 Cor. X. 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.