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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
That ehe Cerraintr ol it is not placed up.
on any clear and distinet Ideas, but uxon
the Force ot Realondistinet trom ic, Wwhich
iras the chine l’intended to prove.
2. The next thinq necelsary 1o bc
eleard in this Dispure is, che Distinction
betreen Nature and Person, and ot this
e canhave no clear and distinet Ideatrom
Sensation or Restection. And vet aIl our
Nocions oF the Doctrine ol the Trinity,
depend upon the riehe understandine ot
ic. For ve must calk unintelligibly a-
bout this Point, unless me have clear and
distinet Aporehentions concernine Nature
and Person, and the grounds ot Identity
and Distinction. But chac thele come nOr
into our Minds by chele simple Ideas ot
Sensation and Reftection, T MalI no matee
IE dPDeaT;
T. AS t0 Nature, Thac is Pometimes
talzen For the Fssential Properey olathins
as Wrhen ve Cay, thac such a thine is ot
a different Nature trom anocher, We
mean no more than thac it is disterenced
by Tuch Properties as come to our Rnon-
ledse. Sometimmes Nature is tatren For che
Thine it self in Which those Properries are;
and l0 Aristoile cook Nature POr a Corpo-
reat Substance, which had the Principles of
Morion in it self: but Nature and substance
ult