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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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AVindication of
it is allo d eoremain undirided. Les in
it sels, but it may be divided in the Per-
sons. TheSubstance, Wve CaY, is uncapa-
ble of being divided any var; and to
PaY, that a Substance Wholy undivided
in ic (elF, is s et divided into as many pro-
per and peculiar Substances, as chere arc
Persons, doth nor at all help our under-
Randins in ehis matter; but if ao more
De meant, as is exprestr declared, than
That the same one divine Nature is Wholly
and entirel communicate d by the eternab
Father 10 the eternat Son, and by Father
and Son 20 the eternat Spirit, without any
Division or Separation; it is the Came Wwtich
aII Frinitarians altert. And it is a OrCaE
Diey, thac any nem Phrases Or. Ways ot
Exprection Mould cause unrealonable
Heats amons chole who are really ol the
same Mind. For thole wrhro oppole che
expreCTiOnS OP three distinct Substances a5
nem and danserous; vec srant, That it
is one peculiar Prerocative of the divine
Nature and Substance, founded in its infe-
nite, and therefore transcendent Perfection,
whereby it is capable of residine in more
Persons ihan one: aud is accordinely com
municated from the Father to the Son and
TTolr Chost; but this is done without anv
Division or Mulriplication. Now it boch
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