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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 Frinier.
oE ocher Actributes as they belons
tohim, a5 chey are insinite, (o they arc
above our Comprehension. (L.) AS 10
Eternitr, Cay chey, it is a clear and di-
stinct Notion of Pternity. 10 lay, it is a du-
ration vithout becxinnine and without end.
But we can have no clear and distinct
Notion of Duration, Wrhen applied to aBC.
ins chac hath necessary Fxistence. FOr
Duration, they lay, consists in a Succession.
And Wrhat Succession can there be in a BC-
ins whrich alvars is the Pame, il there
vereno difterence ot timCS, 1. C. CTOd W 25
thelame Beine belore time Was, and 15
the very lame Beins under ail che ditse.
rences ot times; he hach noc any octier
Duration no than he had betore, and
erhac Succection could chere be irhere
there Was no time: But we makre usc of
Duration With respect to thines donc in
time, and tor the help ot our understand.
ines apply the meature ot time to divine
ActS. But in a necessarr Sxistence, there
ean be no past, present, or to come; and
in a successive Duration, there must Be
conceired a lonser continuance Trom
time ro cime; ihrich is repusnane to the
Notion oF a BeiDs, Wluch aliraySIS. 50
chat, il re cannor conceive Pternity wich
OuE Duration, nor Duration Wihout Su
cel
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