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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 DR F F AC P.
bebut one Substance or Being in the W orid;
and wohat ve no cat ditterent SubstanCes,
vould be only different Modes of Subsistence
in tbe same individual Nature. The dif-
ference of Substances in created Beines, a-
rises fromthose tvo thines. I. A Dissimi-
litude of Accidents, both internat and ex-
ternal. 2. The Will and Pover of G0d,
whereby he cives them distinet and separaie
Beines in the same common Nature. A5
for instance, the Nature or Psence of a Man
consider d’init self, is but one and indivisible;
but Cod eives a separate Fxistence to every
Individuat uherebu that common Nature
subsists in so many distinet Substances, as
there are Individuals of that kind; and
every one of these Substances is distincuis-
ed from all others, not only by a separate
incernal vital Principle and peculiar Pro-
perties, but by such external Accidents, a5
do very easily discriminate them. from each
other. And the subject of al these ACci-
denis is thac peculiar Subltance, which God
hath siven to every Individual, Which in
rationat Beines is called a Perion; and s0
we erant that in al such created Beines the
Perlonaliey doth suppose a distinet Substance;
not from the Nature of Personality, but
fromthe condition of the subjeet wohereim it
is. The Perlonaliry in it self is but a disse-
rent
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