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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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A Vindication of
CHIAP. VI.
Do Contradiction for three Persons 10
be in one common Plature.
II. Hlac ic is no contradiction to assert
three Persons in one common Na-
ture. IMall endcavour to matie chese
matters as clear as Ican; for the great
eAt dissiculties in most mens minds have
risen trom the rvant of clear and distinct
apprehensiens ot those fundamental No.
tions, Wrtuch are necellary in order to the
riehe understandins ot them.
F. Weare to diltinouistr betveen the
Being of a thing, and a thine in Being;
Or betveen Fssence and Lxistence.
2. Betreen the Onity ot Nature Or
Fissence, and oF Fxistence or Individuals
ot the Came Nature.
3. Betrcen the Notion ot Persons in
a finite and limited Nature, aud in a Be-
ins uncapable of Division and Separation.
L. Betreen the Beins of a thine, and
a thing in Being. By che former wemean
ehe Nature and Pssential Proverties ot a
chins; Wrherebs it is distinsuistied trom