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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XXIX

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  1. The PR F F ACF.
  2. But can one whole entire indivisible Sub-
  3. stance be actuallu divided into tbree Sub-
  4. stances: For if every Person must have a
  5. peculiar Substance of hisoin; and there be
  6. three Persons, there must be three peculiar
  7. Substances, and hon can there be three pe-
  8. culiar Substances, and yet but one entire
  9. and indivisible Substance: I do not Cay.
  10. there must be three divided Substances in
  11. place, or separate Substances, but theymust
  12. be divided as three Individuals of the
  13. same kind, which must introduce a Speci-
  14. Fck Divine Nacure, which I thint very in-
  15. consistent with the divine Perfections; but
  16. of this at laree inthe followins Discourse.
  17. do not lay any force upon this areument,
  18. that there can be no cround ot the Di. Fricheiim
  19. charsed, P.
  20. Rinction betireen the chree SubstanCeS, 16,
  21. if chere be but one Substance in the c0d-
  22. head, Cas some have done) because the
  23. Pame Substance cannot boch unite and
  24. distinonis them: for the cround of the
  25. distinction is not the Suostance but the
  26. Communication of il, and where that 15 P. 264.
  27. so freely asserted, there is a reason distinct
  28. fromthe Subctance it selt, Which makes the
  29. Distinction of Persens.
  30. But the difficuley. sil remains, how eact
  31. Person pould have a Substance of his oon:
  32. and vet there be but one entire and indivi-
  33. sible
  34. CXIX

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XXIX. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0035?run=74