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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 Doctrine of the Friniey.
But Cairh S. Augustin. The
Caviller will ast, if there be
Three; What Three are tber:
Fle ansivers, Father, Son and
FToly Chost. Buc chen he di
Ainsuistres between Wwhacthe
are in themselves, and Wvhat
they are to cach otter. The
Father as to himself is G0d, but
as to the Son he is Father: the
Son as to himself is God, but as
1o the t’ather he is the Son.
Nunc mihi Calomnia
cor relpondeat, cld, ex
sorres Eccoqutres
dixisti, sed quiclres expri
me: Immo lanumera
Nam exo cont tres
cum dico, Patc de Pisine
e Spiricus Sanclas
supra. Id enim queu
cer ad se ett,
quod ad Filium c Pa
ter est: quod Lilins 20
seipsum eAt, Deus est;
quod ad Patrem est, Fi
LIus eAt.
But hor is it postible to understand chise
Why, Caith he, Take tvo men, Father and
Son; the one as to himsels is aMan, but
as 1o the Son a Pather; the Son, as tohim-
self is a Man, but asto the Father, he is a
Son: but these tuo have the same common
Nature.
But Caith he, Will it not hence follou,
chat as these are tivo Men, so the Father
and son in the Divine Pssence
must be tuo Cods: No, there
lies the difference between the
humane and Divine Nature.
Thot one cannot be multiplied
Sed non quomodo illi
duo homines Tuncsc isti
duoDii. Ouare hoc NOn
ettita ibi: Ouia illud a-
liud, hoc aurem asiva
est, quia illa Divinitas
and divided as the other eAt, haec humaniEns.
And cherein lies che erue Solution ot
the Difficules, 25 will appear atterrards.
IVI