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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 A CF.
in the Persons, and denied the individual
Onity ofthe Godhead inthem; but he saith,
he follon d Damaleen in asserrine chree re-
al Erpostases; and he ulterly denies Tri-
theilm, and he brines a multitude of rea- L 2. P159.
sons, Why the charre of Tricheilii doth not
lie acainst his opinion, althoueh he oons
the Hypoltases eo be threc dictince indi-
viduals, but then he adds, Thac chere i5 P. 153.
an indirisible ond inseparable Onion of
the divine Nature in aII chree PertOnS.
Nou to deal as impartialy in this matter
as may be- Y do not thint our understand.
ines one jot helped in the Notion of the
Trinity By this TErporhesis; but that it i5
liable to as creat difficulties as any other–
and therefore none oucht to be fond os it,
or to set il acainst the generat sense of o-
thers, and the current Expressions of Di-
vines about these Mysteries; nor to call
the different opinions of, others Herelie or
Nonsenle whichare provoline Words, and
tend very much to instame Mens Passions,
because their Faith and Vnderstandine are
both cali d in question, which are very ten-
der thines.
But on the other side, a difference ouzht
10 be made betroeen the TTeresie and Blas-
phemy of Valentinus Centilis, and the o-
pinion ot such uho maintain the indiriduat
anet