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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
one anocter: S0 that Peter and Zames,
and John are aII oF the lame Kind; Vet
Peter 15 nOr Fames, and Fames IS nOE
Fohn. Buc Whacisthis Distinction Found
ed upon: They may be diltinguistred
trom cach ocher by our Senses, a5 todif-
Terence of Features, distance of Place, (9C.
buc char is noc all; for suppolins chere
evere no Tuch external difference; vec
there is a ditterence betreen them, asle-
veral Individuals in the Came common
Nature. And here lies the true Idea ot a
Person, Which arises trom thac manner of
Subsistence Wrhrich is in one Individual, and
is not Communicable to another. AN In
dividual, intelligent Substance, israther sup.
Poled eo che maltins of a Person, than the
proper Desinition ol it; For a Person re-
lates ro lomethine erhrich doch diltinguimtr
it trom another Intelligent Substance in
che same Nature; and cheretore theFoun-
dation ol ic lies in the peculiar manner
oF Sublistence, Wrhich aorees toonc, and
tonone elle oE theRind; and this is iE
erhrich is called Personalitr.
Buc hour do our simple Ideas help us
out in thisMaster: Can ve learn trom
ehiem, the difterence of Nature and l’erson?
Wo may understand the disterence De-
teen abstracted Ideus, and particular BC-
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