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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
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AVindication of
stance Phad produced in my Sermon, E0
ter that e might be obliged to believe
such chines concernins God, oF which
ve cannot have a elear and distinet NO-
tion; as that God vas trom all Eternitr
althouoh re cannor conceive in our
minds, hour he could be from himsef
Now, Wrtrat saith the 2nitarian to this,
Who precendedco Ansiver me: HIe Caith,
cerm. D. . f E0d must be fromhimsels, then an Fter-
nal Godis a Contradiction; for that implies
that he vas before he was; and so charges
me with esponsine the cause of Atheists. I
vistr our 2nitarians vere astree tromthis
Charse as Pam. Butthis is malicious ca-
villing. For my delion ras only tostieu,
that we could have no distinct conception
ot Comethine which e are bound eobe-
lieve. For upon all accounts re arebound
to beliere an Fternal. God, and vet we
cannot form a diltinet and clear Idea oFthe
manner of it. Whecher being trom him.
TelF Detaten positively, or necativelr, the
matteris notcleared; the one is Absurd,
andthe ocher Inconccirable by us. But
CilIICaY, it is a thins chat ve are bound
tobeliere Aedtastly, althouch it is above
our comprehention. But instead of An-
Tverins tothis, he runs out into an Pxa
mination of onc notion ol Eterniey: and
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