ABSTRACT
Not presumptuous to attempt to define the doctrine.—Prevalence of the opposite view.—We may believe an unintelligible proposition to be true; but what we do believe, we understand.—The proposition that there are three persons in one God, in the ordinary signification of the terms, is absurd.—The meaning of the words may be limited.—Different statements of the doctrine.—Remarks upon them.—The Scriptural doctrine stated.—Plan of the discussion in five divisions.—1. The import of the doctrine does not involve the use of the words being and person in the same meaning.—The peculiar meaning of each defined.—General form in which Trinitarians hold their doctrine.—More particular form may be authorized by the Scriptures.
