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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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AVindication of
T. Thac there is no Person Where there
isnointelligent Nature tomakre it a Perion,
and (o ve orant ic. 2 Thac a Person implies
an intelligent Being, separate and divided
Trom ocher Individuals of the Pame Kind,
aS IEis amones men: and (o e deny it 25
1o thePerions oftheTrinier, because the
Divine Fssence is not capable ot such Di-
vition and Separation as thehumane Na-
TUrC 15.
But lay they again, The Fathers did
hold a specisicat Divine Nature, and the
Per(ons to be as fo many individuals. This
ther repeat very olten in their late Books;
and alter all, reter us to Curcellaeus For
undeniable Proofs oF It. Let us For the pre-
LaMtoch. Sent suppole ic, then Thope the Fathers
are frecd trom holdine contradictions in
the Doctrine ol the Trinur; For Wwtrac
Lerter to Contradiction can it be, to hold threc in-
dividual Persons in che Ciodhead, and Onc
common Nacure, nore than it is to hold
that there are chrec hurmane Perlons in One
and the same common Nature ot Man:
Wiil cher matre this a Contradiction to0:
But lome have (0 uled themselves to the
Languase ot Fareon,. Nonsense, Contradi-
ction, Impossibility, that it comestromthem,
as lome men livear, Whien cher do noc
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