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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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AVindication of
Consideration of our selves, and what ve
fnd in our oon constitutions, our Reason
leads us to the Rnooledee of this certain
and evident Truth; that there is an eter-
nal, most poverful, and most tenomine Beine.
AII Wrtrich Preadilr vicld; buc we sec
Plainly, the Certainty is noc placed in
the Idea, buc in good and Tound Realon
Fromthe Consideration of our selves and our
Constitutions. Whrat: in the Idea of our
Selves. No cerrainly; For let our Idea
De calen erhich vay re pleale, Dy Sen-
sation or Reftection, vec it is nor the Idea
thac mmakresus cerrain, bue che Argumene
trom thatwhich e perceire in, andabout
Our Selves.
But ve find in our selves Perception and
Rnouledee. IrS very true; buc how doch
this prove chac there is aGod: Is it trom
theclear and distinet Idea OF it. NO, buE
From ehis Aroument: That either there
must have been a kenovine Beine from Fter-
nity, or an untenovine; for somethine must
have beenfrom Pternity: but if an untnou-
ine, then it vas impossible there ever sould
have been auy tenomledee; it beine as im-
possible, that a thinq without tenooledee
Bould produce it, as that a Trianele Boubd
make it sels three angles viecer than tvo
riehtones. Allomins che Arsumenttobe
D
ect. 5.