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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 Prinier.
tothe divine Nature: For therein lies the
Wtole difficuler. Doch he oon tuch a
Community of Nature, and Distinction of
Individuals There: HC Arst conselles che
dirine Natureto be incomprehensible by
us; Dut vet re may have lome dictince
Notions about thele things. A5 For in
Rance, In the Father ve concerve somethine
common to him and to the Son; and that
is the divine PPence: and the same a5 t0
the TToly Ghost. But there must be some
proper characters to distinzuist these, one
from another; or else there will be nothine
but confusion: Wrtrich is Sabellianism. NOW
the essential attributes and divine Opera-
tions are common to them: and cheretore
these cannot distinsuimr tlem trom cach
Other. And those are the peculiar Proper-
ties of each Person, a5tie BieWs at larec.
But may not each Person have a distinet
Fssence belongine to him, as we sec it is a-
mone Men:
For Fhis S. Basit an livers: (T. ) HIC uE.
terly denies any possible Division in the
divine Nature.
And he never question d but the di- Ou jd sty
Rinction ot Indiriduals under the Pame emronoui
rouunr, i
Species Wras a Port oF Division, althous saiecon
Chere avere nO Separation. And the FOI. nat esera
loivers oF Joh. Philoponus did hold an in-
dissoluble
Te9NOV. P.
810. B.