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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 Prinicy.
chat have been vec made, that is ag00d
Areument to prove the uncertainey et
Philosophical Speculations about the Reat
Essences ot chines; buc it is no prejudice
tous, Whro enquire atcer che Cerrainty ot
lueh Fssences. For althoueh we connot
comprehend the internal F’rame, Or Con-
sticurion ot thines, nor in whrac manner
chiey do Ao trom the substance; vet by
them e certaintr hnom thac chere are
Tuch Fssences, and thar ther are dictin-
guishred trom cach orter by cheir Povers
and Properties.
3. The Fssences oF chines a5 they arc
knovable by us, have a Realiry in them:
For they are founded on che naturat Con-
stiturion oF chines. And horever the ab
stract Ideas are the work ot the Mind;
vet ther are noc meer Crearures ol che
Mind; as appears by an instance produ-
cedot the Fissence of the Sun, beine inone
sinele Individuat; in wtrich Case ic 1
30ck 3.
granted, That the Ldea may be so abstract. Chap. 5
ed, that more Suns mieht aeree in it, and Sect. L.
it is as much a Sort as if there vere as ma-
ny Suns as there are Scars. So thathere
we trave a Reat Pssence lublictins in one
Individual, but capable ot beine multi
plied inro more, and che lame Pllence re
mainins. Buc in chis one Sun TherC IS a
Reat