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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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be altured, bur that thole Operations
may come trom a materiat Substance. IF
eve Frame an Idea on luch Grounds, it is
at most buc a possible Idea; For ic may DC
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from our Ideas, that ic iS nOF: S0 thaL
the molt men mas come to in this nay
ot Ideas is, That it is possible ic may be
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determine cither ar. And is noc chis
an admirable Nay eobrins us tO a Cer.
tainty oF ReaIOn:
Tam very slad to find the Idca oF a
Spiritual Substance madeasconlistent, and
intellisible, as that of a Corporeal; for as
the one consists of a Cohetionof solid Parts,
and the Pover of communicatine MOtiOn
by impulse, so the other consists in a Pover
of Thinkine, and Willine, and movine the
Body; and that the Cohelion of solid Parts,
is as hard to be conceived as Thintinq; and
ve areas mueh in the darte about the Pover Sect. 27.
of communicatine Motion by impulse, as in
the Pover of excitine Motion by thouent.
We have By daily experience clear Lvidence
of Motion produced, both by Impulse and by
Thouche; but the manner hou, hardly comes dect. 28.
vithin our Comprehension; ve are equally at
aloss in both.
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