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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 Friniey.
mon to alI. Wtrich makes them ot one
kind: and if the difference of Kinds BC
real, thac which makresthem ot one tind
and noc of anocher, must not be a Nominal
But Reat Fssence. And chis difference
doth not depend uxon che complex Ideas
of substance, Whereby Men arbirrarily
Joyn Modes rogether in their Mlinds; FOr
lec ehem mistakre in the complication os
their Ideas, cither in leavine OuE, Or pur-
tinq in What doth noc belone cothem, and
let their Ideas De ihrat cher please; thc
Reat Fsence oF aMan, and a Horse, and d
Prec, are just wtrat chey vere: and let
elieir Nominat Lsences difter neverlomuch,
tlic Reat common Fssence, Or Nature ot tho
several kindsare nor at all alter d by them.
And thele Real Pssences are unchancea
ble: For, hovever there may happen
lome varieey in Indiriduals, by particu-
lar ACCidents, vet ehe FssenceS OF MCN
and Horles, and Prees remain alrarsthe
Came; becaule thez do nor depend on che
Ideas oF Hen, bue on che Will ot che
Creator, Who hach made leveral COrts ot
Bein95.
2. Let us now come to che Idea ot a
Person. For, althousl che common Na-
eure in mantind De the lame, y et ve lec
disserence in thesereral Indiriduals trom
Or