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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 117

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  2. 1
  3. the Doctrine of the Priniey.
  4. Threc. The Former insisted on tlie gene-
  5. rally received sense ot TTypostasis For
  6. Substance or Fissence; and theretore they
  7. could noc hold chree Eypostases without
  8. chree distinct Essences, 25 thc Platonists
  9. and Marcionists held. Opon this a Sy.
  10. nod vas called at lexandria to adjust
  11. this matcer, evhrere both P’arties Were de- RuFin. p.
  12. sired to explain chemselves. Thole Wvhro 2I1. histo
  13. held chree Arpoctales ivere askred, WWhe. Actian.
  14. ther they maintained three Flypostases a5 Ep. ad An-
  15. the Arians did, of different Substances and tioet, P.
  16. separate Subsistences, as Mantind and o-
  17. ther Creatures are: Or as other Flereticks,
  18. three Principles or three Gods: Allwhich
  19. cher Cedtastly denied. Then they vere
  20. astred, Why they used those terms: They
  21. anlivered, Because ther believed the FToly
  22. Trinity to be more than mere Names; and
  23. that the Father, and Son, and FToly Ghost
  24. had a real Subsistence belongins to them:
  25. but stilt they held but one Godhead, one
  26. Principle, andthe Son of the same Substance
  27. with the Father; and the FToly Ghost not
  28. tobe a Creature, bat to bear the same pro-
  29. per and inseparable Pssence vith the F’ather
  30. and the Son. Then che other Side vere
  31. astred, When ther asserted but one TTypo-
  32. stasis, Whether they held with Sabellius or
  33. not; and that the Son and LLoly Chost had
  34. 37

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 117. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0189?run=74