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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 244, page id 727097563:0316
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A Vindication of
From whence ic Follows, Fhat wemay
be cerrain of che Beins ol a Spirituat
Substance, althoush re have no clear and
distinet Idea Ot it, nor are able to compre-
hend the manner of its Operations: And
theretore IE 15 a vam chins in any 10
pretend, that all our Realon and C er-
tainey is founded on clear and distinct
Ideas; and that cher have Realon to re-
ject any Dectrine Which relates to Spiri-
tual Substances, because they cannotcom
prehend the manner oC it. Forthe lame
chins is consessed by the moct inquiluire
Nlen, about che manner ot Operation,
boch in material, and immateriat Substan-
Sect. 31. ces. Icis affirmed, That the very Notion
of Body implies somethine very hard, if
not impossible to be explained, or understood
Byus; and that the natural Consequence of
it, VI2. Divisibilitr; involves us in Dissi-
culties impossible to be explicated, or made
consisteni. That ve have but some feu Su-
perficiat Ideas of thines; that ve are de-
stitute of Faculties, to attain to the true
Nature ofthem; and that When ve de that,
ve fall presentlr into Dartness and Obscu-
riti; and can discover nothine farther, but
our von Blindress and Tenorance.
Thele are very Pair and insenvOUS
Confections ol the Mortnels OE humune
Onder.
S0ct. 32