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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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the Doctrine of the Priniey.
rood, vet it is not tatcen trom the Idea-
but trom Principles ot true Reaton; 25
Thac no man can doube his orn Percep.
tion; thac every chine must havea C ause:
thac ehis Cause must cither have RnO-
ledec or noc: it it have, the Pointis gaincd;
it ic hach nor, noching can produce no
thine; and consequenely, a nOt LnOWIDE
Beine cannot produce a linomine.
Again, Tf ve suppose nothins t0 be first, dect. 10.
Matter can never becin to be; if bare
Matrer without Mocion eternal, Mocion can
never becinto be; if Maiter and Motion
he supposed Fternal, Thoucht can never be-
ein t0 be. For, if Marter could produce
thoucht, then-Thouche must le in the pover
of Matter; and if it be in Matter as
Such, it must be the inseparable Property os
au Matter; Which is contrarr to the Sense
and Experience of mantind. Is onty some
parts of Marter have a pover of Thinkine.
hou comes so creat a difference in the Pro-
perties of the same Macier: What disposi-
tion of Matter is required to thinking: And
from vhence comes it: Of Which ne account
can be siven in Reason.
This isthe Substance os the Argument
uled to prove an intinite spiritual Beino.
arhichi Iam Car trom weakenine the torce
oE; burthat which I delien, is to MeW,
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