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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
IF our Ideas be only the Fflects wefect
et the Povers ot chines withourus; vei
our Reason must be latistied, thac chere
could be no such Povers, untels there
evere lome real Beines irhich had them.
Sothat either we mar be certain by thole
Efects ot che real Beins oF Things; Or
it is not possible, as re are tramcd, to
have any cerrainty ac all of any chine
Withoue our Cclves.
2. Thac trom ehe Povers and Proper-
ries ot things wrhichi are knomable by US,
ve may hno as much of che internal
Fssence oF Thinss, a5 chole Povers aac
Properties discover. 1d0 not Cay, That
re can lenor all Psences ot chinss alitie;
nor thac re ean acrain to a pertect un
derstandins of all chat belons eo them:
but il we can lnoir lo muchi, asthat therC
arc certain Beines in che Worid, endued
rith such distinet Povers and Properties,
What is ic we complain ot che ant ot,
in order to our Cerrainty oF ThinsS: But
ve do not sec the bare Esence of things.
Wrhac is that hare Fssence ithout cho
Povers and Properties Belonsins 10 It3
Ie is that internat Constitution of thines
from uhence those Povers and Properties
Rou. Suppole e beignorant otchis (a5
re are like to be, tor any Dilcoveries
that