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And elsewhere he as distinctly asserts [Greek or Hebrew], three things. And what could he mean by three things, not three Deities, (as he often inculcates) but he must certainly mean three Entities, three Essences; for by three things, he could not possibly mean three Non-Entities, or three Nothings. His great care plainly was to assert the true Deity of the Son and Spirit, or their Preeternity, or that it could never be said ([Greek or Hebrew]) there was a time when they were not, which he inculcates in an hundred places, still insisting that one Deity, one Essence was common to them, but still with distinction; and as warmly inveighs against Sabellius and P. Samosatensis, as against Arius every whit.

And elsewhere he as distinctly asserts 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, three things. And what could he mean by three things, not three Deities, (as he often inculcates) but he must certainly mean three Entities, three Essences; for by three things, he could not possibly mean three Non-Entities, or three Nothings. His great care plainly was to assert the true Deity of the Son and Spirit, or their Preeternity, or that it could never be said (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) there was a time when they were not, which he inculcates in an hundred places, still insisting that one Deity, one Essence was common to them, but still with distinction; and as warmly inveighs against Sabellius and P. Samosatensis, as against Arius every whit.

And that which puts his meaning quite out of doubt, speaking how the Father, ¹Son and Spirit, tho of one and the same sort of Essence, are three Hypostases, he plainly says the Nature wherein they partake is so One, as the humane Nature is One in all Men. We Men, saith he, consisting of a Body and a Soul, are all ([Greek or Hebrew]) of one Nature and Substance, or Essence; but we are many Hypostases. And to the same purpose [Dial. 2. de Trinitate] his Anomoeos comparing the Father, Son and Spirit, to a Bishop, Presbyter, and Deacon, he brings in the Orthodox saying, they have all the same Nature, being each of them Man; as an Angel, a Man, and an Horse, have different Natures.