A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XIV
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The machine reads it as
- The P R F F ACF.
- HIS pellases consisted ot peculiar Proper-
- ties in one and the Parme divine Substanco.
- But it is not the authority of Fathers Which
- they recard, for ther serve them onty as
- Stones in the Boys way ibhen they quarrel,
- viz. to throw them at our Fleads.
- Tet us then examine thus matter by rea-
- son without them. Perions arrione Men,
- say ther, are distinguimed trom Perlona-
- licies, because ther have diltinet Sub.
- Rances, cherelore Where chere is buc one
- Substance, the Person can be onty a Mode,
- and cheretore the Pame with ehe Perio-
- nalits.
- Tansiver, that the true original Notion
- of Perlonalitr is no more than a different
- Mode of subsistence in the same common Na-
- ture. For every such Nature is in it self
- one and indivisible; and the more perfect
- it is, the greater must its vnitr be. For
- the Tirst Beino is the most Ore; and alt
- Divilion comes from Viltance and Imper-
- fection. The sirst foundation of viltincti-
- on is Diversity; for if there ivere no Di-
- versity, there vould be nothine but entrre
- and perfect Onity. Au Diverper comes
- from tuvo thines, Dissimilitud and DCDCn-
- dence. Those lhilo, ophers, (called nesa-
- riei) did not thint much amiss, Woho sard
- That if all chinssmere alihe, chere mould
- DC
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XIV. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0020?run=74