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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.
he Realon to Bc very g00d, but the
Ouection P aske is, Whether this AroUmOnE
be Fromthe clear and distinet Idea Or BOE:
We have Ideas in our selves of the severab
Operations of our Minds of Knominq, WWil
line. Considering, ecc. Which cannot come
from a Bodily Substance. VerY Erve; buE
is aIl this contained in che simple Idea Ot
these Operations: How canthac be, When
the Came Persons Pay, thac normichstand
ins their Ideas it is possible for Matier t0
Think. For it is Taid, That we have the numane
Ideas of Matrer and Thinkine. but possibly Onderst.
sait never be able to tnou, whether any
4. Ch. 3.
mere materiat Beine thinks or not; it beine sect. 6. 2d.
impossible forus by the Contemplation of our Ld. P. 310.
oun Ideas, without Revelation to discover
Whether Omnipotency hath not siven to some
Systems of Matter, fily disposed, a Pover
10 perceive or think. IF this De true, then
For all that re con lno br our Ideasot
Marter and Thinkine; Matrer may have
a Pover ot Thinking: and il this hold,
then it is impostible to prove a Spiritual
Sublance in us, From ihe Idea of Thinte-
inc: For ho can ve be allured by our
Ideas, chat Ciod hath noc siven luch a
Porver of Thinkine, to Macrer Codilpoled
as our Bodies are: Fspecially since it is
Caid, That in respect of our Notions, it is not
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