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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.
And (0 Treturn to our protessed Qni-
rarians, Wlio in ansiver tom Sermon toii
upon the lame Subieet, and it is necellary
that I consider (0 much, 25 rends to the
clearins of ic. In my Sermon Phadure
ed ehis Arsument to prove, chiat wemay
De bound co beliere lome chines chat arc
Incomprehensible to us, becaule the Di-
vine Nature, and Attribures are actenon
ledoed to bc 10; and Phad said,
(T.) Thac chere i5 no grerter Difficul-
cy in che Conception of the Trinity, and
Tncarnation, than there is oF Pternitr.
Norbut char there is great Realon t0 bC-
lieve it, but trom hence it appears, chat
our Reason mas oblige usto beliere ome
chinss, Which ic is not Dossible FOr uS 10
comprehend.
And Wvhac Cav our Dnitarians to chis:
Thcy Charse my Notion of lter-
nity (a5 they calI ic) rich a Contradi-
ction.
The belt mar of proccedins will BCto
set donn my onn Words hichare chele.
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Ne knon chat cither God must haVC ansiver E0
been For ever, or it is impolsible he Serm. D. 5
ever ould bc, For if he Mould come
into beins when he ras nor, he must
have lome Cause ot his Beine, and thac
rhich Was the Arst Cause nould be
G0d.