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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 Frinitr.
nor John are Peter, but Perer haththetrue
tissence ot aMan in him; and the true
Essence is but one and indirisible; and
theretore Tames and Zohn cannot De true
Men, because Peter hath the one and indi-
visible Fssence oF a Man in him: But they
will Pay, We cannot say that Peteris theone
true Man, 25 Wve (aY, That the Father is
the One erue God. Tes, we lay thelame in
ocher Words, For he can be laid to bc tho
Onc erue 60d inno other Respect, butas he
hach theOnetrue Divine F Sence. AIIthedit-
ference lies, that a tinite Nature 1S Capa-
Pable oF Division, buc an intinite is nOE.
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IE Follons,The Godhead ot theFa-
ther, and of the Son, and ot the HolY
Ghost is all onc, the Glory Equal, the
Majestr Co. cternal.
Tothis ther CaY, That this Article doth
impuen and destroy it self. Hoi (0: For,
if the Glory and Majesty be the same in
Number, then it can be neither Fqual, nor
Co. eternal. Not Fqual for it is the same,
Wvhich Fquals never are, nor Co. eternal for
that intimates that they are distinet. For
nothine is Co eternal, nor Co temporary with
it self.
There is no appearance of Difficuler
Or Contradiction in this, il the Dictin-
ction ot Persons is allowed; For thethree
Person