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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
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The P R F F A C F.
thins wich different Denominarions: Can
the communicarins rhe divine Flsence by
che Facher to the Son, be called a NaMC,
or a Mode, or a Relvect ontr. And these
Men os monderfuit Subtilty, have not learnt
to distinguist berween lerlons and Perlo-
nalities.
Where is the least Intimation siven, that
he loot d on the divine Persons as Modes
and Respects ontr: Thatis impossible, since
he vons a Communication ol the divine
Fssence, and chac cach ot the divine Per-
Tons hath the dirine Nacure belonoins to
tum; could it ever enter into any Mans
head to think, that he that oons this sould
oun the other also: But the Perlonaliey
is a thine of another consideration. For it
is the reason of the distinction of Persons in
the same undrvided Nature. That thereis
a distinction, the Scripture assures us; and
withall; that there is but one divine Fs
sence. TTou can this distinction be. Not
By essentiat attributes, for those must be in
the droine Esence, and in every Person a-
like othervise he hath not the entire di-
vine Nature: not by accidents, as Men are
distinenised from eachother, for the divine
Nature is not capable of these; not by sepa-
rate or divided Substances, for that vould
he inconsistent with the perfect Onity of the
Codhead;