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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.
others inhom he calIS Mysterious Wits:
The Duection 15, Wrhecher any ching
oughe to be rejectedas an Article ot Paict,
becaule we cannoc comprehend it, orhave
a clear and distinet Perception oF it: HC
concludes it must D0 l0, Or elle ve over-
throu Relicion, and the Nature of Man-
and the Wisdom and Goodness of 6od.
Here is an Fsencial Actribure oF God, viz.
his Eternirr. Am Ibound to beliere it
Or BOT: Tes, doubeless. Buc hor can I
comprehend this Atcribure ot Fcernitr:
Very easily. HToW (0: D0 not von compre
hend that it is incomprehensible : WhaC
then: Doch ehis reach cheNature ot che
chins, or onty che manner oF our Con-
ception: IF the Nature of the thine be-
that it cannot be comprehended, then vou
richely understand the Nature of the ching.
and jo it is not above jour Reason. L et
the Case be noi put as tothe Trinity;
do rou beliere che Doctrine ol IF, a5 oF
Divine Rerelation: No, Cod hath civen
me the Nature, and Faculties, of a Man
and lcan believe nothine, Which Y cannot
have a distinct and clear Idea of: other-
vise T must have nem Faculties. Will vou
hold eo chis Principle. Phen vou must
beliere nothine, Which rou cannochavea
slar and dittinet idea ot. Very erue.
BIHF