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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 of
AO Relation, but the Perton ot the Father
Or oF the son mult; and chese Relations
eannot be contounded wich onc another.
And il the Facher cannot be che Son, nor
ehe Son the Facher, then thes must bc
distinet trom cach other. But hOW: By
dividinque the Substance: Thac is impolsi-
ble in a Substance chat is indivilible. Ic
nay be Caid, That the Fssence of created
Beines is indivisible, and vet there are di-
vided Persons. I grant it, buc then a
created Lsence is Capable of ditterent ac-
cidents and qualities to divide one Per-
son trom another, Which cannot be sup.
poled in thedivine Nature; and withaiI
che lame pover wrhich sires a Beins 10
a creaced Esence, sives it a separate and
divided Exictence trom aIl others. A5
ertien Peter, Fames and John received
their several dictinet Perlonalicies trom
Crod; althe lame time he sare them their
Separate Beinsstrom cachother, although
the lame Fsence be in chem alI.
But hou can ve but divide the Substance
Wvhichve sec in three distinet divided Per-
sons: The queltion is, Whecher the di
Kinet Propercies of the Perlons doimply
a Division et che Substance. We deny
that the Persons are divided as tothe Sub-
stance, becaule chac is impossible to be di-
vided:
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