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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.
then Accidenis or Modes, must subsist Ot
themlelves, and thele simple Ideas necd
no Fortoise to supvorechem: Por Ficures
and Colours, ecc. vould do vell enouoli
et chermselves, but for Fome Faucies men
have accustomed themselves 10. IF it b0
prounded on plain and evident Realon,
thien e must allor an Idea ot substance,
Whrich comes nor in by Sensation Or Re-
Rection; and (0 we may bc certain ot
lome thines vrhich re have noc by thole
Ideas.
The Idea of Substance, we are tolda-
Eain, is nochine but the supposed, but un-
tenoun support of those Oualities ve find exi-
stins which ve imarine cannot subsist, line re
Pubstante, which accordinq t0 the true import
of the vord, is in plain Fnelisto, standinq un
der, or upholding. But very lictle reigne is
to be laid upon abare Grammaticat Ety-
motoer, Wrtien elic word is uled in ano-
cher sense by the best Auctors, luca as
Cicero and Onintilian, Wvhro talre Substance
Por the Tame wirh Essence; 25 Valla nath Valla Di-
proved; and (o ehe Cireek word impores. Sput. Dial.
Dui Boethius in tranclatino Aristoiles Pre-
b. 2. C. 6.
dicaments, rather chole the vord substance
a5 More Proper, 10 exprels a Compound
Beine, and relerved sissence, For Whac WaS
more simple and immacerial. And in
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