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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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A Vindication of
this Sense, Substance Was noc applied 10
Cod bur only FPonce, 255. Aucustine cb.
serves, but atcerirards, thenames of Sub-
stance, and Pssence vere promilevousy
utec, rith respect to cod ard his Crea-
cures. Ard doimply, thac Wrhich maties
the Reat Beine, a5 dictinsuithed from
Modes and Properties. And (0 the Sub-
Stance; and Fissence oF a Man are the tame;
not beine talcen tor the individuat Sub-
stance, Which cannot be understood wich.
out particular Modes and Properties; but
the general Subltance, or Nacure oF Man
abstractiy trom all che Circumttances ot
Perlons.
And Idesire to know, Whecher aCCOr-
dins to true Realon, that be not a clear
Idea OF a MtaH; nOt ot Peter, Fames Or
Fohn, buc ot aNtan as luen. Thisis nOt
a meer universal Name, er Mark, Or Sien;
buc chere is as clear and diltinct aCon-
ception ot chus in our Minds, a5 we can
have trom any such simple Ideas, a5 arc
conver dby our Senses. Ido not deny
chac the Diltinction ot particular sub.
llances, 15 by cheleveral Modes and Pro-
perties oF them, (Whrich ther may calla
Complication of simple Ideas it chey please)
bur Ido allert, chac the generat Idea,
Which relates eo che Pssence Without these