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dellruftive to {hips in that part of the world. Every part 

 of the country, he fays, to the diftance of 30 miles round, 

 has the appearance of being formed by convulfions of nature 

 from fubterraneous tires ; and the whole illand, he thinks, 

 is formed of an argillaceous earth, either in its primitive 

 ftate, or under its different metamorphofes. This argil- 

 laceous earth is formed, as he conceives, from the fediment 

 of the ocean, and its formation is eafily accounted for from 

 the fituation of Trinidad. The great influx of currents into 

 the gulf of Paria, from the coafts of Brafil and Andalufia, 

 muft bring down a vail quantity of light earthy particles 

 from the mouths of the numerous large rivers which traverfe 

 thofe parts of the continent ; but the currents being repelled 

 by the fides of adjacent mountains, eddies and fmooth water 

 will be produced when they meet and oppofe one another ; 

 and, therefore, the earthy particles would fubfide, and form 

 banks of mud, and by the acceffion of frefii accumulations 

 form dry land ; and thus fuch a traft of country as Trinidad 

 muft be formed. The caufes ftill operate, for the ifland 

 is daily increafing on the leeward fide, as is vifible in the 

 mud-beds that extend a great way into the gulf, and are 

 there conftantly augmented. But from the great influx 

 from the ocean at the fouth end of the ifland, and its egrefs 

 to the Atlantic again through the Bocas, a channel mufl: 

 ever exiil between the continent and Trinidad. N. lat. 9° 

 48' to 10° 42'. W. long. 60° 6' to 61° 36'. 



Trinidad, La, a town of South America, in the pro- 

 vince of Moxes ; 200 miles N.E. of La Plata. S. lat. 14° 

 40'. W. long. 65° 50'. 



Trinidad, a fea-port town of the ifland of Cuba, fituated 

 in a bay on the fouth coafl; of the Havannah. N. lat. 51° 

 56'. W. long. 80° 18'. 



Trinidad, La, or Sonfonate, a fea-port town of Mexico, 

 in the province of Guatimala ; 80 miles E.S.E. of Guati- 

 raala. N. lat. 14° 3'. W. long. 91'' 6'. 



Trinidad, La, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Veragua, on a river which runs into the gulf of Mexico ; 

 18 miles S.E. of La Conception. 



Trinidad, La, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Nicaragua, on the eaft coaft of Nicaragua lake ; 30 miles 

 N.W. of St. Carlos. 



Trinidad, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Paraguay; 170 miles S.E. of AfTumption. 



Trinidad, a fmall ifland in the South Atlantic ocean, 

 and one of thofe called " Martin Vas's Iflands ;" taken pof- 

 feflion of by the Portuguefe about the year 1783, who keep 

 a fmall garrifon here, but, according to M. Peroufe, ill fur- 

 niflied. This ifland prefents nothing to the eye but a rock,, 

 almoft. entirely fterile. A little verdure, and a few flirubs, 

 are alone to be feen in the narrow pafles between the moun- 

 tains. It is in one of thofe vallies fituated in the fouth-eaft 

 quarter of the ifland, and about three hundred toifes wide, 

 that the Portuguefe have formed their eftablifliment. Na- 

 ture certainly did not intend this rock to be inhabited : 

 neither men nor animals being able to find a fubfiftence upon 

 it ; but the Portuguefe were afraid left fome European 

 nation fliould avail thcmfelves of the vicinage, and carry on 

 a contraband trade with the Brafils. S. lat. 20'' 31'. W. 

 long, of the fouth point 26^ 37'. 



Trinidad Bay, a fmall open bay or cove on the weft 

 coaft of North America. N. lat. 41° 3'. E. long. 236° 6'. 

 TRINITARIANS, a term ufed very varioufly, and 

 arbitrarily : frequently it ftands as a common name for all 

 perfons who have fentiments on the myftcry of the Trinity, 

 different from thofe of tlie Catholic church. 



Sometimes it is more immediately reftrained to fome one 

 or other particular clafs of fuch perfons. 



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It is now applied to the orthodox themfelves, in contra- 

 diftinftion to the others who are then called JnWrimtarians, 

 or Unitarians, who deny or impugn the doftrine of the 

 Trinity. 



Thus the Socinians and others called the Athanafians, 

 Trinitarians. 



The Trinitarians of the prcfent age, and cfpecially thofe 

 who, in England, have written on the fubjeft of the 

 Trinity, are far from being agreed in their opinions, and, 

 therefore, ought to be claflt.-d very differently from one 

 another. 



A late writer (Prieftley's Hlft. Corrupt, of Chriftianlly, 

 vol. i. p. 147.) thinks that they are all reducible to two 

 clafles, viz. tliat of thofe who beheve that there is no proper 

 divinity in Chrift, befides that of the Father ; and tlie clafs 

 of Trithelfts, who maintain that there are three equal and 

 diftinft Gods. Dr. Waterland and the reft of the Athana- 

 fians aflfert three proper diillnft perfons, entirely equal to 

 and independent upon each other, yet making up one and 

 the fame being. Mr. Howe (Works, vol. 11. p. j6o — 568.) 

 feems to fnppofe that there are three dlilinft eternal fplrits, 

 or diftinft intelligent hypoftafes ; each having his own dlf- 

 tinft, Angular, intelligent nature, united in fuch an inex- 

 plicable manner, as that upon account of their perfeft 

 harmony, confent, and afleftlon, to which he adds their 

 mutual felf-confcioufnefs, they may be called the one God, 

 as properly as the different corporeal, fenfitive, and intel- 

 leftual natures united may be called one man. Bifliop 

 Pearfon (on the Creed, p. 134, &c. 322, &.C.), bifliop 

 Bull (Serm. vol. iv. p. 829.), and Dr. Owen (on the 

 Heb. 1. 3. p. 53, &c.), are of opinion, that though God 

 the Father is the fountain of the Deity, the whole divine 

 nature is communicated from the Father to the Son, and 

 from both to the Spirit ; yet fo as that the Father and Son 

 are not feparate, or feparable from the divinity, but do ftill 

 exift in it, and are moft intimately united to it. Dr. Thomas 

 Burnet (Script. Doftr. p. 173.) maintains one felf-exiftent 

 and two dependent beings ; but afferts, that tlie two latter 

 are fo united to and inhabited by the former, that by virtue 

 of that union divine perfeftlons may be afcribcd and divine 

 worfliip paid to them. In this opinion Dr. Doddridge is 

 faid to have concurred. Dr. Wallls (Lett, on the Trin.) 

 thought, that the diftinftion between the three perfons 

 was only modal ; which feems, fays Dr. Doddridge, to 

 have been the opinion of archbifliop Tlllotfon. (Tillotf. 

 Serm. vol.1, p. 492— 494.) Dr. Watts (Dlff. N°7.) 

 maintained one fupreme God dwelling in the human nature 

 of Chrift, which he fuppofcs to have exlfted the firft of all 

 creatures ; and fpeaks of the divine Logos, as the wifdom 

 of God, and the Holy Spirit, as the divine power, or the 

 influence and effed of it ; which, he fays, is a fcnptural 

 perfon, /. e. fpoken of figuratively in fcripture under pcr- 

 fonal charafters. Doddridge's Leftures, p. 402, &c. 



Trinitarians alfo denote an order of religious, infti- 

 tuted In honour of the Trinity, for the redeeming of Chrlf- 

 tian captives from the infidels ; vulgarly called Mathurlns, 

 and brothers of the redemption. 



They are clothed in white, and bear on the ftomach a 

 crofs, partly red and partly blue ; by which three colours, 

 white, red, and blue, is fiippofed to be reprcfented the 

 myftery of the Trinity ; but the habit of this order is dif- 

 ferent in different provinces. 



The Trinitarians made it their bufincfs to go and ranfom 

 Chriftians held in flavcry in the republics of Algiers, Tunis 

 and Tripoli, and tlie ftatcs of Morocco. They have a rule 

 peculiar to thcmfelves ; though feveral hiftorians rank them 

 among the obfervers of the riilc of St. Anguftine. 



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