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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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602 I'he EJjfence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Godhead^ B o o k I.doth ejfence or fubftance^ differ from hyp<strong>of</strong>^infes ; that <strong>is</strong> to fay, that efTcnce orfubftance<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Godhead, which <strong>is</strong> common to <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> three hyp<strong>of</strong>tafes, orwhereby each <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>m <strong>is</strong> God, was concluded by <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>rs, not tobeonefingu-Jaror indi/idual,but oaegeneral or univerfxlefTence <strong>and</strong> fubftance; Theodoret,notwithft<strong>and</strong>ing, <strong>the</strong>re acknowledging, that no fuch diftindion was obfervedby o<strong>the</strong>r Greek, writers betwixt tii<strong>of</strong>e two words xVi'a <strong>and</strong> x^TrdraiK;^ effence orftibjlatice a.nd hyp<strong>of</strong>taf<strong>is</strong>, as that <strong>the</strong> former <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m fliould be reftrained touniverfalsonly, generical or fpccifical elTences or fubftances ; but that th<strong>is</strong>was peculiar to <strong>the</strong> Chriftian fa<strong>the</strong>rs, in <strong>the</strong>ir d<strong>of</strong>lrine concerning <strong>the</strong> Trinity.They in <strong>the</strong> mean time not denying, but that each hyp<strong>of</strong>taf<strong>is</strong>, pr<strong>of</strong>opon,or perfon, in <strong>the</strong> Trinity, might be laid in ano<strong>the</strong>r fenfe, <strong>and</strong> in way <strong>of</strong>opp<strong>of</strong>ition to SaMIius, to have its own fingular, individual, or exiftent effencealfo ;<strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong>re are thus, r^fiV ouViai, three fingular exiftent effences in^^^^ Deity, as well as t^cT? j7ror

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