# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0158 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0158?run=74 # Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40) # Folio 86, page id 727097563:0158 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=727097563&page=158 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/727097563/jpgs/default/00000158.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 40 lines, status machine # Lines: 40 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. AVindication os dissoluble Enion betreen the chiree indivi- dual Fssences in the divine Nature; Dut therheld a distinction ot peculiar Pssences, Belides the common Nature, Wvtrich ther Called urenas Soes y idmas deornras and Phoc. C.0d. 1d1 245 RoE15 5 25 appears by Phorius, Wto CDd. 234 was very able to judoc. And it apPCaES by onc ot chemselves in Photius, thac the controversie as, Wrhether an PIrpo. stasis could be without an individuol Fs sence belongine t0 it CelE; Or Whecher the peculiar Properties and Characters did make the Fypostasis. BuF 25 +0S. Basib S Notion, We are to oblerve; (2.) That he malies the divine Fhencero De uncapa- ble ofnumber, by reason ofits perfect V. NIEY. ITere our 2nitarians teIl us, that Wtren S. Basit Caieh, That G0d is not one in etie Nomi- number, but in nature, he means: a5 the natandRe Tature of Man is one, but there are mani 226, 27. particular Men, as Peter, Tames and Tohn ecc. So the Nature of God, or the common Divinity is one, bat there are as truely more Gods in number, or more particular Gods. as there are more particular Men- But thar ehis is a erols mistakre or abuse OF S. Basils meanine, IMall make it plain trom himlelf. For, cher Cay, That he Beld, tbat as to this question, Tou many Cods: it must be ansvered, Three Cods in number, orthree Personat God5, and one in Nature 24. Discourse concernine aVnITaT. BaTEI. PP 41