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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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Tbe EB F B A C B.
Techeilm a Man may quie his Explication without
. P. SC. Fareins with che Article it sCIF. And so
he may retain the Article with his Explica-
FIOn.
But suppose a Man 10 assent to the fun-
damentat Arricle it self, and be mistatien in
his Explication of it, can he be charged
with Heresse about this article: For He-
rese must relate to the fundameni al Article
io which he declares his bearty and unfeien-
ed cssent; but here ve sappose the mistate
ro lie onty in the Explication. 45 for in-
stance, Sabellianim is a condemned and ex-
ploded FTeresie, for it is contrary tothe ve-
ry Doctrine of ihe Trinitr; but suppose one
vho asserts the Voctrine os chrec P’ertons,
Bould make themto be chree Modes, must
such a one presently be chareed with Here-
TC, before ve see uhether his sxplication
be consistent vith the fundamental Article
or not. For this is liable to very obvious
Objections, that the Pather becets a Mode
instead of a Son, that ve pray 10 three Modes
instead of three real Persons, that Modes
are mutable thines in their ooon Nature, etc.
but must ve from hence conclude such a one
suilty et Teresce, When he declares, that
he withai supposed them not to be mere
Modes. but tbat the divine Essence i5 +o be
taken tocether with the Mode to mate a Per-
Sor
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