# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0171 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0171?run=74 # Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40) # Folio 99, page id 727097563:0171 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=727097563&page=171 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/727097563/jpgs/default/00000171.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 33 lines, status machine # Lines: 33 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # 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. the Doctrine of the Frinity. 2. That we Wrho hold but One Substance, cannot make more Gods than One. 3. T0 his instance of Men, he anlivers, That althouch theyare of the same Nature By Birth, vet ther differ in Ace, and Thouxbt, andWork, and Place from one another; and vhere there is such Diversity, there cannot beDnity: but in God, there is no difference of Nature, Will, or Operation; and there- fore there can be but one God. The last IMaII mention is S. Augustin, Curcello erliom Curcellaeus producestoas litele Dur- 1. 97. pole; for althouoh he doth mention che same instance of several Men beine of the same kind; Vet he speals lo exprest a52inA 2 Specisick Enity in Ciod; chat hC TaieM, The Consequence must be, that the AVS. de three Persons must be three Cods; as three Prinie. humane Persons are three Men. And in another place, That the Father, Son and FToly Chost, are One in the same individual l. 7. 6. 6. Nature. And Wrhat laich Curcellaeus IO C. Naxi. thele places, for he mas arrare ol chem. l. 1. T0 che lacter he Cairh, That by individual, hemeans Specifick. This IS an extraordinar) Curcel Auliver insced. Bur What Realon dochhC n. 114. sive For It: Because they are not divided in Place or Fime, but they may have their proper Pssences Bovever. Buc where dorh S. Auoustin sive an) Su