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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 Frinier.
those wtro held three distinct and separate
Erpostases; a5 the Plaronists, and alter
chem che Marcionists did. Dionysius et
Mlexandria, hren hecame to explain him-
selF, aoreed with che orhers and asterted
the Son eo be of the same Substance with Actiana
the Father.. 25 Athanasius hach proved at de Sent.
laroe: bur ver he Caid, That if a distinction
of Fypostases vere not kept up, the Doctrine
of the Triniry vould belost; as appears by
Dionys.
an Fpistle oF his in S. Basil. Athanasius Basil de
Sp. Sancto
Caith, That the TTeresie ot Sabellius laY c. 29
in makcins the Father and Son to be onty
different Names of the same Person; (o Athan. O.
TaT. 4. C.
epat in one Respect he is the Fatber, and Rrian. p
in another the Son. Grecory Nazianzen In 456.
oppolition to Sabellianism, Paith, We must CrCB. Na-
2ia1. OF. 1.
helieve one God, and three Lypostases ; P. 16, 17.
and commends Athanastus For preler.
vins the true Mean, in altertine the
Onicy of Nature, and the Distinction oj
Properties. S. Basit Caith, That the Sabet
lians made but one Person of the Pa-
ther and Son: that in Plame they con-
fessed the son; but in Realier they denied
him. In another place, that the Sabellians
Or. XXY
P. 380.
Bacit.
asserted bui one (Trpostasis in the Divine Na- FIom. 275
ture; bui that Cod took se veral Persons upon P. 602,
604
him, as occasion required: Sometimes that of Basil. F
a Father, ai other times of a Son; and (00f pill. 141.
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