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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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ehe Doctrine of the PPInIEY.
of Cod is passod over. PTo can this DC
consictent ith deducins our Certainty os
Rnovledee Frora clear and simple Ideas: l
donot eo about ro justitie chose, who lay
the whole stressupon thal Foundation; Wvhich
lorant to be t00 veals to suppore (oim-
Portant a Truch; and that chole are verv
nuch eoblame, Wvhro eo about to invali-
date other dreumenis for the sake of ibat:
DuE I doube alI ehis TaIK about clear and
distinet Ideas, beine made the Foundation
of Certainty, eame Originally trom those
Discourles, or Meditations, Whrieh arc
aimed at. The Auchor ol chem WaS an
ingenious, Thinkins man, and he endea-
vour deo lar che Foundations ot Cerroin-
1y, 25 vell as hocould. The tirst chins
he found arv cerraintr in, vas his own
Fxiltence; Wrhich he Founded upon che
Perception ol the Acs oFhisnlind, which
Jome call an Incernal, infallible Perception
ehat we are. From hence he procceded,
eo enquire, hor hecame by this Certain-
WV, and he resolved ic into chis, chat he
had a clear and distinet Perception of it;
and trom hence he Formed his general
Rule, That what he had a clear and di-
stinct Perception of vas true. Whrich in
Reason cuohero eono tarcher, than irtiere
chere is the lilse Degree ol Fridence: lor
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