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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
ne Pssence or Subsistence: Wtrich they ut-
terly denied: buc laid, that their mean-
InE WaS, That FSypostasis vas the same with
Substance; and by one TVypostasis, they in-
tended ne more, but that the Father, Son
and FToly Chost ivere of the same individu-
al Substance; (Por ehe Words are diae 2
TCVESEHHE TnS VoEOS) and (0 ther held
bui one Godhead and one divine Nature:
and upon these terms ther oerccd. From
Wvhrence iE Follos, thac ehe Notion ot
threc Eypostases, as it was received in che
Christian Church, Wvas to De underliood
50 a5 eo b0 consistent ith the Individu-
al 2nity oF the divine Fssence. Aud thO
reat rule oF che Christian Church WaS
10 lcep in tho midole, betwreen the DO.
Etrines ot sabellius and Arius; and (0 by
degrees, the Notion ot three Fypostases
and one sissence was loold on in the la-
Seru Church, as the most proper Dis-
crimination of the Orthodor trom the
Sabellians and Arians.
Buc the Latin Church was noc so cas
ly broushe tothe ule ot chree TEypostases,
because ther hnew no ortier Senle ot IE,
DuE FOr Substance Or Essence; and they
all denied chat there vas any more than
one divine Substance, and theretore ther
racher embraced the Nord Persona; and
dic