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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 Pindication of
Reat Fsence, and noc a meer Nominal Or
abstracted Pssence: Dur suppole there ivere
more Suns; would nor cach ot them have
the Reat PPence oF the Sun: For what is
it maties the second sun to bc a true
Sun, but having the lame Real Fssence
rich the tirst: IF it evere bue a Nominat
Fssence, then the second rould Lave no-
chins but che Name.
Therctore there must De a Real P Sence
ir. every indiridual oF the lame lind;
For that alone is it, wrhich makes it to bc
What it 15. Peter, and fames, and Fohm,
are ail erue and real Men; buc What is
ic Which malies them (0: IS it the ateri
butins a generat Name tothem: No cer-
cainly, buc chatthetrue and Reat F sence Ot
aMan is in every onc ot chiem. And we
must be as certain ot this, a5 we are chat
ches are Men; they ralce cheir Denomi-
nation of beins Men trom chat commen
Nature, Or Fsence irhich is in them.
4. That the generat Idea is not made
Trom che simple Ideas by the meer Aet ot
the Mind abstractins trom Circumstan-
ces, bur trom Reason and Conlideration
ot chetrue Nature oF Things. For, When
Wve sce (omanr Individuals, chat havethe
Tame Povers and Properties, we thence
inter, char ehere must be somethins com-
mOn