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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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the Doctrine of the Prinier.
excludes all cerraintr oF Faith or Realon,
ahere e cannoc have luch clear and di-
stinct Ideas. Butifthere are many chings
ot Whrich ive may becertain, and set can
have ro clear and distinet Ideas ol chem;
if those Ideas we have, are to0 imperfect
and obleure ro form our fudoments by:
ifire cannor find out sufficient interme-
diate Ideas; thenthis cannot De the Means
OF Certainey, or the Foundation et Reason.
But I MaII kecptoour present Subject;
and our cerrainer ot it in Point ot Rea-
Ton, depends upon our Rnomledge oF rhe
the Nacure oF Substance, aud Person aud
the Distinction between them: but il Wve
ean have no such clear Ideas in our Minds
concernins thele chinss, a5 are required
Fromsensation, or Reftection; then, cither
We hraveno ule ot Reason about thiem, or
it is in sufficient to pals any Judemene
concernine them.
r. Ibecin with che Nocion OF Sub
stance. And Thave oreat Reason to begin
wich ic; for, accordins to this MansPrin-
ciples there ean beno certainty ol Reason
at all about it. And lo our new Way ot
Reason is advanced tovery s00d Purpole
For wemay talk and dispute about Sub
stance, a5 lone as we pleale, but, if his
Principles oF Realon betrue, re cancome