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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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AVindication of
Who beforethem did understand themean-
ins LODC, That ve cannot comprehend that
there is a God: Thisis not mere tristine.
For it looles like Pomethine worle; and
vet ther presencly alter Pay, That tocom
prehend a thine is to have a clear adequate
Conception ofrit. And will cher precend
to have Cuch a one ot the divine Esence,
ertien ther contess but a lictle betore,
That ve converse every day with verr ma-
ny thines, none of which ve comprehend,
and that l miche have spared my pains in
provine it: Buc irhat can be the mean-
ins ot chese layinss, They cannot compre-
hend the common Natures of thines, nOE
hrave a clear and distinet Idea ol them,
butther can comprehend an infinite Beine.
ertiom all Mantsind ovn eo De incompre-
hensible. But astodivine Attributes, chey
PaY, They have clear distinct and adequate
Conceptions of them; and inltance in siter-
nier, Pover, Wisdom and Fustice. Wedo
noc deny chat in such Actributes irtrich
e applyto cod, becaule ire find them
to be Perfections in us, we have a dictinct
and elear Perception ol them, as ther are
consider d in themselves, For that is the
realon erhiy e actribute them to God.
But For such a5 peculiarly belons 10
Cod a5 Pternity doch; and For the de-
Trees
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