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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
Way. And such a base Calumny is t00
much honoured vith a Confutation. Byp
do ther ofter eo clear the difficuler aud
siveus a clear and distinet Idea of 60d5
fore hnowinz Future Evenes rithout a cer-
tain Cause tO malce theM FUEUre. NO.
thins libe it. For the quection is nOE
Whether a thine be necessary because 60d
foresces it as cerrain, (25 chey suppolc.)
But hor oF a chins merely postible it
Comesto Decertain withont a cerrain Cause;
and ho a thins ehich hath no certain
Cause ean be certainty Forekenonn, and
Whac clear and distinet Nocion ve can
have of this in our Minds. IF they had
ansiver dehis, ther had laid Comethins to
the purpole. To resolve aIl into 60d5 in-
finite Wisdom is a sood ansiver From us,
but not tromthem. For we think it oux
Duty to latistie our selves with whac God
hath revealed, rithout oryins into che
manner ot chines abore our Comprehen-
Tion; bucchese Men Wrho will recciveno.
thinq but what ther have clear and di-
stinct Ideas ot, oughe eo pew the man-
ner olthis, or else me must be exculed on
thelame realon, it ve allorr che manner
OF thc divine Subsistences in the same Fs
sence to be abore our Comprehension.