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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 Priniey.
Threc. The Former insisted on tlie gene-
rally received sense ot TTypostasis For
Substance or Fissence; and theretore they
could noc hold chree Eypostases without
chree distinct Essences, 25 thc Platonists
and Marcionists held. Opon this a Sy.
nod vas called at lexandria to adjust
this matcer, evhrere both P’arties Were de- RuFin. p.
sired to explain chemselves. Thole Wvhro 2I1. histo
held chree Arpoctales ivere askred, WWhe. Actian.
ther they maintained three Flypostases a5 Ep. ad An-
the Arians did, of different Substances and tioet, P.
separate Subsistences, as Mantind and o-
ther Creatures are: Or as other Flereticks,
three Principles or three Gods: Allwhich
cher Cedtastly denied. Then they vere
astred, Why they used those terms: They
anlivered, Because ther believed the FToly
Trinity to be more than mere Names; and
that the Father, and Son, and FToly Ghost
had a real Subsistence belongins to them:
but stilt they held but one Godhead, one
Principle, andthe Son of the same Substance
with the Father; and the FToly Ghost not
tobe a Creature, bat to bear the same pro-
per and inseparable Pssence vith the F’ather
and the Son. Then che other Side vere
astred, When ther asserted but one TTypo-
stasis, Whether they held with Sabellius or
not; and that the Son and LLoly Chost had
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