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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio XLIX, page id 727097563:0055
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Tbe D R F F AC F.
TI. Thenext is, to represent Church. meri
as Perlons ot Interest and Delien, Who
maintain Relicion only because it supports
them; and this they cal Priest. Crate, and
is they can by this means take avay their
Authority t00, the way lies still more open
for them; for it is more easie to mate a
Prey of the Flock, When the Shepherds
are suspected onty to loot after their Fleeces.
Since such a suspicion takes avar al Trust
and Considence in their Ouides; and they
knou very well, hou little others oilt be a
ble to defend themselves.
III. Another step is, to magnisie the De-
iAts as Men of Probity and go0d Senle;
that assert the just Liberties of Mankind,
acainst that terrible thine called Priest.
Crate; and that vould rescue Relicion from
false Ctosses and absurd Notions taken up
from the Schools and tauche intheniver-
EItIeS, on purpose to keepunder those Princi-
ples of universat Liberty as to Opinions
Which those offreer Minds endeavour to pro-
mote. Dut especially they are great Rne-
mies to alt MyCeries oF Faith, as unreaso-
nable Impositions on those of more refined
Onderstandings, and of clear and dictinet
PercePEIOnS, as they have learnt to express
themselves. These they account intolerable
surpations on Men of such EleVaTIOnS as
Them–
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