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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
Persons may be well Caid 10 DC Co. equat
and Co. eternat; and it Wve Llonour the
Son as ve Llonour the Father, we must
sive equal Glory to him.
But ionc great Point ot contradiction
remains, Viz. Sothatthe Facher isCiod,
Cd
the Son is Crod, and che Holy Chost is
Ciod, and vet there are not threc GodS;
but onc Crod.
Firct, they Pay, This is as if a Mansould
Cay, the Father is a Person, the Son a Per-
son, and the TToly Chost a P erson, vet there
are not three Persons; but one Person. HOW
isthis polsible, if a Person dochi suppose
lome peculiar Property, ehich must di-
Stinsuist him trom aIl ottiers: And how
ean three Persons De one Person, unlels
three incommunicable Properties may be-
come one communicated Properes t0
chree Gerlons: But they are avare ot a
Diltinetion in this Calc, viz that theterm
Crod is uled Personally, when it is Caid
Ood the Father, C0d the Son, and Cod the
FTolr Ghost; Due when it is Taid, There are
not three God5. but one 60d, the term 60d
is used Pssentially, and theretore compre.
hends the hole chree Pertons, (o chat
Noceson A. C ether a Grammatical, nOr Arith
chanas. bis medum Contradiction. And Whrac lay our
latians tO ThIS: FruIy, nolels, Than
tha
Creed, P.