# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0018
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0018?run=74
# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio XII, page id 727097563:0018
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=727097563&page=18
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/727097563/jpgs/default/00000018.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 31 lines, status machine
# Lines: 31 recognised, mean confidence 0.94
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

The D R E S AC F.
Codhead; since therefore there can be no
other way of distinction, we must consider
hou the Scripture directs us in this case;
and that acquaints us with the l’ather, Son
and Holy Cholt, as havins mucual Rela-
tion io each other; and there is no Repue
nancv therein to the divine WaturC, and
therefore the distinction of the Persons hath
been fixed on that, as the most proper foun-
dation for it. And these are called disse-
rent Modes of Sublctence, on Wwhich the
distinet Perionalities are founded, which
can be no other than relative. But a Per-
Ton is that Which results from the divine
Nature and Subsistence tocerher; and al-
thouch a Person cannot be said to be a rela-
tive, consider d as such, vet beine joyned
vith the manner of Subsistence, it doth im-
ply a Relarion, and so a Person may be
said to be a relative Being.
considerat. But sar ther, IFthe chrec Persons have
plication, all the Came individual Subltance, then
P. 23. ther are truis and proveriy omly chrec
Modes; and theretore althoush amone
Men, Perlonalities are diltinet trom the
Perlons, becaule the Persons are dictinet
intelligent subltances, vec chis cannoe
hold irhere chere is but one individual
Subctance.
On tBe P. X-