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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
are distinct, and therefore must be distinct
Cods, since every one is distinet from the o-
ther. They are distinet a5 to per sonal Pro-
perties, but nOtaS tO Pssential Attributes;
Wtrichare and must bethe lame in aII: 50
that here is but one Essential God, and
threc PersonS.
But aster all, why de ve assert three Per-
sons in the Godheadd Not Decaule re find
ehem in che srhanasan Creed; but becaule
the Scripcure hach revealed chat there arc
Threc, Father, Son and Holy ChoA; 10
erhom ehie Dirine Nature and Actributes
are siven. This me verily beliere, that
the scripture hach revealed; and that
there are a great mans places, ot whrict,
We chink notolerable sense can be siven
ithout ic, and cheretore ve altere this
Doctrine on the Pame Grounds, on Which
re beliere che Scriptures And if there
are three Persons Wrhich have che Divine
Nature actribuced to them; What must we
do in ehiis Case. Must we cast of the2.
nity of the Divine Fsence: No, that ist0O
trequently and plaintr asterted For us t0
call it ineo Question. Must ve reject
those Scriptures wrhich actribure Diviniey
to the Son and HolV Gholt, as well ast0
the Facher: That we cannot do, unlels me
Cast oH those Boolis ot Scripture, Wrhereim
thole