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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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DCar: T. Say they. Three personal Gods,
and one FSential C0d mahe four Cods; if
the Essential C0d be not the same with the
personal Cods: and tho he is the lame, vet
since they are not the same with one another
but distinct, it follous, that there are three
60d5, l. C. three personat Cod5. 2. It intro-
duces tivo sorts of G0ds, three Personat and
one Fssential. But the Christian Relicion
knous and oons but One, true and most high
60d of any sort. S0 tar chen, we are a-
orccd, That there is but One, true and most
hich Cod; and chat because of the pertect
Qnisy ot elie Divine Essence, Which can DC
no more than One, and irhere thereis but
One Divine Fssence, there can De but One
true Cod, untess we can suppole a C30d
ichone an Fssence, and that would be a
Aranse Tore oF C0d. Hemould bCa per-
Sonal God indlecd in cheir crirical Senle of
a Person For a MhaDe Or aPDearANCC. BUt
may not the fame PSence be divided: That
l have already lhe d eo be impoltiblc.
Theresore we cannot matse lo manr per-
sonal Gods, Decause We aflere orc and
ehe lame Fssence in the three Perions ot
Laitier, Son and Holy Chost. But they
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