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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 7, page id 727097563:0079
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the Doctrine of the Frinier.
vould makrero a Fury, he is atraid to be
condemned by.
Buc wrhac chen is the peculiar lighe
Wrhich chele haver men have found in a
corner, the rant whereol hath made the
Christian Church to Fall into Tuch mon-
Strous Frrors and Contradictions: Nothine
(Ther pretend) but the mere light ofcom–
mon sense and reason; Wrhrich they call at-
ter a more retined ray ot Ipcakine, clear
Ideas and distinet Perceptions of things.
Buc leaA I Bould be thouehe to mil
reprelent them; I Will produce lome ot
their omn exprections. In one place ther
Cay. We denythe Articles ofthe neu Chri-
stianity, or the Achanalian relicion, not
because they are Mysteries, or because we do
not comprehend them; ve deny them, be-
cause ve do comprehend them; ve have a
clear and distinet Perception, that they are
not Mysteries, buc Contradictions, Impossibi-
lities, and pure Nonsense. We have our
reason in vain, and al science and certainty
vould be destroyd, is we could not distin-
suißs betveen Mesteries and Contradictions.
And Coon atter, we are not to eive the vc- ansiver 10
nerable name ot Mystery to Doctrines that
my Sermon
are contrary to natures and reasons Lieht,
or Which destroy or contradict our naturat
Ideas. Thele chinss I hare particular
realon
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