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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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A Vindication of
C0d. But il hemas tor ever, he must
be trom himselt, and what WOciOM, Or
Conceprion can ne have in our Minds
COnCerMIHE IC3
CO This Cay chey, F0 say a Person, ox
Thine is from it selfis a Contradiction; it
implies this Contradiction, it was before it
was. And they are sorry an Pternal Cod
must be a Contradiction. What a FalsC and
Spitetul Interence is chis?
Buc ic had lookd sitre very decp Reason-
ine, il Phad Paid That 60d vas the cause
of himself. For, chac nould have im
plicd che Contradiction he had charged
ic vrith: bur Thad expressly excluded his
veine from any cause; and che chins I
ursed ras ouly che impossibilier, ot our
havine a clear and diltinet Concertion ot
Rternity. For, il he couldhave no Cause,
Whac could me chink ofhis beins Eternal:
ef to be from himself as a Cause, Le uncon-
ceivable, (25 I grant ir 15) then it proves
irhac I designed, chac we canmothave any
distinet Idea ot Pternity. Buc tobe from
himself in che Sense generally understood,
15 a meer Nerative Lixpression; For no Men
vere such Lools eo imasine any chines
could be betore it sels, and in this senle on-
ly. Learned Men have toldus, thacitis to
De understood by thole ancient and modern
Vriter.