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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 os
vant ofthis, some assere but one ypostasis
as wellas one Fssence; and orhers, because
there are three Erpostases, suppose there
are three distinet Esences. For both vent
upon che lame Ciround, chat Fypostasis
and Essence vere chc Pame. Theretore
Paith he, those wrhro heldthree Tpostases,
did male rir rr Souor diclecon a Division
of substances. Erom Whence it TolIOWS
chat S. Basit did loolc upon the Nocion ot
three distinet. Substances a5 a miltale: 1
Cay distinct Substances, 25 Individuals arc
distinet; For Corhe tirst Principles oF Phi-
loloptiy do onn chat individuals makre a
Liceiecors, ex Division of the Species into
several and dictinet Individuals.
Bat doth not S. Ba(Il e0 about 10 ex-
plain his Notion by the common Nature os
man, and the several Individuals under it 3
and what can this senisie to his purpose
untess he allous the same in the Godhead:
lgrant lie doth (0, but he Caichthe sub-
stance, 15 char wrhich is common to the
Whole kind; the sypostasis is that wrhich
proverly distinsuitherh one Individual
from another; Wtrich he calls the rd ide-
or che reculiar incommunicable Proper-
.Which he deleribes by a Concourse of
erass distenuistins Characters in every Indivi-
sicopa Icv. dual Dut how dorh heapply chele thines
Covdce
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