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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 ACF.
HIS pellases consisted ot peculiar Proper-
ties in one and the Parme divine Substanco.
But it is not the authority of Fathers Which
they recard, for ther serve them onty as
Stones in the Boys way ibhen they quarrel,
viz. to throw them at our Fleads.
Tet us then examine thus matter by rea-
son without them. Perions arrione Men,
say ther, are distinguimed trom Perlona-
licies, because ther have diltinet Sub.
Rances, cherelore Where chere is buc one
Substance, the Person can be onty a Mode,
and cheretore the Pame with ehe Perio-
nalits.
Tansiver, that the true original Notion
of Perlonalitr is no more than a different
Mode of subsistence in the same common Na-
ture. For every such Nature is in it self
one and indivisible; and the more perfect
it is, the greater must its vnitr be. For
the Tirst Beino is the most Ore; and alt
Divilion comes from Viltance and Imper-
fection. The sirst foundation of viltincti-
on is Diversity; for if there ivere no Di-
versity, there vould be nothine but entrre
and perfect Onity. Au Diverper comes
from tuvo thines, Dissimilitud and DCDCn-
dence. Those lhilo, ophers, (called nesa-
riei) did not thint much amiss, Woho sard
That if all chinssmere alihe, chere mould
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