A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XV
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- The DR F F AC P.
- bebut one Substance or Being in the W orid;
- and wohat ve no cat ditterent SubstanCes,
- vould be only different Modes of Subsistence
- in tbe same individual Nature. The dif-
- ference of Substances in created Beines, a-
- rises fromthose tvo thines. I. A Dissimi-
- litude of Accidents, both internat and ex-
- ternal. 2. The Will and Pover of G0d,
- whereby he cives them distinet and separaie
- Beines in the same common Nature. A5
- for instance, the Nature or Psence of a Man
- consider d’init self, is but one and indivisible;
- but Cod eives a separate Fxistence to every
- Individuat uherebu that common Nature
- subsists in so many distinet Substances, as
- there are Individuals of that kind; and
- every one of these Substances is distincuis-
- ed from all others, not only by a separate
- incernal vital Principle and peculiar Pro-
- perties, but by such external Accidents, a5
- do very easily discriminate them. from each
- other. And the subject of al these ACci-
- denis is thac peculiar Subltance, which God
- hath siven to every Individual, Which in
- rationat Beines is called a Perion; and s0
- we erant that in al such created Beines the
- Perlonaliey doth suppose a distinet Substance;
- not from the Nature of Personality, but
- fromthe condition of the subjeet wohereim it
- is. The Perlonaliry in it self is but a disse-
- rent
- C
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XV. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0021?run=74