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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 Priniey.
is (0 just, and true an Idea, FhaE WWithOUE
ic the complication of simple Ideas, wil
never siro us a riotue Norion of it.
Imust do that Riohe eo the ingenious
Auctor OF the FPay of humane Vnderstan-
ding (From Wrhence these Nocions are bor-
rowed to serve ortier Purposes than he
intended them) chat he makes che Case
Ot Spiritual, and Corporeat Substances tobe
alikO, aS FO tHCI Ldeas, and ebat we have
asclear a Notionof a Spirit, as ve have of
a Body, the one beine supposed to be the
CBaD. 25.
Substratum to those simple Ideas ve have sect. 5.
from withoui and the other of those Opera-
tions ve find withinour selves. And that
it is as rational to affirm, there is no Body.
because ve cannot tenow its Fsence, a5 tIS
called, or have no Idea of the Substance of
Matter; a5 to say, there isno Spirit, be-
cause we knou not its Fssence, or have no
Idea of a Spirituat Substance.
From hence iE FollOWs, That ve mar
De certain, that there are Boch spiritual
and Bodily Substances, althoveh Wve can
trave noclear and distinet Ldeas of them. BUE,
ifour Reason depend exon our clear and di-
stinct Tdeas; how isthis postible: We can-
notreason wichout clear Ideas, and y et Wwe
mar be certain Withoue ehiem: Can We
De certain rithout Realon: Or doth our
Realon