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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 261

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  1. the Doctrine of the Prinier.
  2. ings, by the Imprecsions oF outvard Ob-
  3. jects; and we may And un Intelligent
  4. Substance in our selves by inmard Percep.
  5. tion; Cut Whrecher that makhe a Per son Or
  6. nor, must be ynderstood lomeother W ay;
  7. For, il che ineer Incelligent Substance
  8. makies a Perion, then there canHOE DC
  9. the Onion ot two Natures, Buc there must
  10. DC tvo Pertons.
  11. Theretore a Person is a compleat Intel.
  12. ligent Subltance, rith a peculiar manner
  13. et Subliltence; (0 that it it bc a part oF
  14. anocher Substance, it is no Perton. aud
  15. on this accoune the soul is no Perion, bC-
  16. cause it makres up an entire Beine by ils
  17. Onion with the BOdY.
  18. Bur wrtien we speak ot Finire Substan-
  19. ces and Persons, we are certain thac di
  20. cinct Persons do imply distinct sub.
  21. Aances, becaule ther have a distinet and
  22. separate Existence; bue this will not hola
  23. in an infinite substance, Wrhere necella-
  24. ry Fxistence dorh belono to che Idea ot
  25. it. And althouoh the Argument trom
  26. the Idea of 60d, may noc be luticient of
  27. it selF to prore his Beine; yet it willhold
  28. 25 t0 the exeludins any chine trom bim,
  29. erhich is inconsistene wien necessarr Rxi
  30. stence; cheretore, it ve suppole avictin-
  31. ation of Persons in che lame Divine Na-
  32. tHrC

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 261. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0333?run=74