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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 Prinier.
ings, by the Imprecsions oF outvard Ob-
jects; and we may And un Intelligent
Substance in our selves by inmard Percep.
tion; Cut Whrecher that makhe a Per son Or
nor, must be ynderstood lomeother W ay;
For, il che ineer Incelligent Substance
makies a Perion, then there canHOE DC
the Onion ot two Natures, Buc there must
DC tvo Pertons.
Theretore a Person is a compleat Intel.
ligent Subltance, rith a peculiar manner
et Subliltence; (0 that it it bc a part oF
anocher Substance, it is no Perton. aud
on this accoune the soul is no Perion, bC-
cause it makres up an entire Beine by ils
Onion with the BOdY.
Bur wrtien we speak ot Finire Substan-
ces and Persons, we are certain thac di
cinct Persons do imply distinct sub.
Aances, becaule ther have a distinet and
separate Existence; bue this will not hola
in an infinite substance, Wrhere necella-
ry Fxistence dorh belono to che Idea ot
it. And althouoh the Argument trom
the Idea of 60d, may noc be luticient of
it selF to prore his Beine; yet it willhold
25 t0 the exeludins any chine trom bim,
erhich is inconsistene wien necessarr Rxi
stence; cheretore, it ve suppole avictin-
ation of Persons in che lame Divine Na-
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