In Edward Stillingfleet's A Discourse in Vindication of the Trinity (1697) - an eirenical work which sought to bring a close to Trinitarian disputes in the post-1688 Church of England, while reaffirming orthodox Trinitarian faith against the Socinians - we can detect something of the Trinitarian minimalism seen in, for example, Taylor and Tillotson. Above all, Stillingfleet states that Trinitarian faith is not dependent upon the dogmatic language of the Athanasian Creed, but upon the witness of holy Scripture: But after all, why do we assert three Persons in the Godhead? Not because we find them in the Athanasian Creed; but because the Scripture hath revealed that there are Three, Father, Son and Holy Ghost; to whom the Divine Nature and Attributes are given. This we verily believe, that the Scripture hath revealed; and that there are a great many places, of which, we think no tolerable Sense can be given without it, and therefore we assert this Doctrine on the same Grounds, on wh...
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