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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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A Vindication of
much more remote from our Comprehension
to conceive that60d can, if he pleases, super-
add to our Idea of Matrer a Faculry os
Thinkine, than that he phould super-add 10
it another Substance, with a F’aculty ef. T hint-
inc. Whoever alteris this, Can never prove
a Spiritual Substance in us, from a F’aculty
of Thinkins; Decause he cannor knor
trom the Idea of Marter and Thinkine, that
Macter (0 disposed cannor Think. And
he cannoc be cerrain thac cod hath nor
Framed the Matter OE our Bodies, (0 25
eo bc capable oF IF.
30oL IV. IE is Paid indeed clsertiere, That it is
Chap. 10. repugnant to ihe Idea of Senstess Malter,
Bock IL.
CBap. 23.
that il sould put into it self Sense, Per-
cepiion and sinomledse: Buc chis doch not
reach chepresen: Case; Which is nornhat
Matrer can do of ic self, but Wrhat Matter
preparcd by an Omniporent hand can do.
And erhac certainey can mehave chac he
hath noc done it: We can havenone from
the Ideas; For those are siven up in chis
Cale; and consequenelr, re can have
ne certainey upon chele Principles, irhe
cher Wrehaveany Spiritual Substance with.
In US Or BOL.
But reare cold, That from the Opera-
tions of our Minds, ve are able to frame
(est. 15. the Complex Idea of aSpirit. IOW can
tha
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