The Doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity

Dedication.

[...deny their] Creator This completes the sentence from the previous page regarding those who ignore the divine simply, or at least do not rightly seek the truth, and therefore fail to find their Lord and Savior as the only Mediator Mittler: a theological term referring to Jesus Christ’s role in reconciling humanity with God. For the one is as bad as the other; because eternal life consists not only in the knowledge of God, but also in the knowledge of Him whom He has sent, and no one can have the Father who denies the Son.

Since it is thus very poignant and painful that so many thousands of souls allow themselves to be shamefully misled—and, in their blindness and misery, still consider themselves wise and understanding—it is, on the contrary, a great refreshment for all righteous people that, as mentioned, there are nevertheless many who recognize the corruption, bow their minds under the mighty hand of God, and kiss the Scepter A biblical allusion to Psalm 2:12, "Kiss the Son," signifying submission to the authority of Christ of the Son who draws ever nearer.

Among these, however, Your High-Countly Excellency original: Hoch-Gräfliche Excellenz; a formal honorific for a nobleman of the rank of Count is rightly sought and placed; as it is certain that You gaze upon your Creator with reverence; nor can it be denied that You seek to recognize and enjoy Him in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Since, then, such confident hope has primarily led me to this liberty, as it were, to venture to present to Your Excellency this humble writing concerning the important matter of the most holy Trinity Dreyeinigkeit: the Christian doctrine that God exists as three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and the eternal Divinity of our Lord and Savior: I therefore wish from my heart that the glory of the invisible...