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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 A C F.
rent Mode of Subsistence in the same com-
mon Nature, Which is but One: but this
Personality beine in such a subject as Man
is, it from thence follors, that each Per son
hatha peculiar Substance of his oon; and not
fromthe Nature of Perlonalier. But When
ve come toconsider a divine Fssence, Which
is most perfectly one, and is Wholly uncapa-
ble of any separate Existence or Accidents,
there can be no other vay of distinction con-
ceived in it, but by different Modes of
Subsistence, or relative Properties in the
same divine Essence. And herein ve pro-
ceed, as ve do in our other Conceptions of
the divine NTature, L. C. uve take avay alt
Imperfection from God, and attribute only
that tahim, Wohich is acreeable to his di-
vine Perfections, althouch the manner of it
may be above our comprehension. And is
this be omnine the Trinity ot the MOD,
am nos ashamed to oon my self to be one of
them; bat it is not ont of LaZy nelS or
aftected lenorance, but upon the createst
and most serious consideration.
They maycall this a Friniey oE Cyphers,
Theyplease, hui Y thint more modest and
decent Languace about these matters vould
become them asvellas thethines themselves
much better. And they must prove a lutle
better than they bave done, that different
Modes
L. etter 10
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