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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 289, page id 727097563:0361
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the Doctrine of the Friney.
into the grounds ot our Faith; For We
lool on itas a reasonable Act ot our MincS,
and il re did noc allow chis, we mustde.
clare our selvesto beliere without grounds.
And, il re have grounds for our Faich,
We can express them in Words chac are
incellisible; and il re ean sive an ac.
coune ot our Faich in an intellisible man.
ner, andrith a desion to sire others la-
tissaction abour it, I chink chisismatrins
use of our Reason inmatters of L’aith.
2. We have no difference rith them
about the use of our Reason, 25t0 the true
Sense of Revelation. Wenever Cay, chatMen
are bound to beliere uxon the bare sound
of Words rithout examinins che sense
ot chem. Weallo all the belt and most
realonable ways of actamins toit, by C0.
DICS, Languages, Versions, comparins
ot Places, and especially the sense of the
Christian Church in che best and purest.
ASeS, nearest the APCLolical Times, and
exprelsd in Tolemn arici publick ACS.
By chese Rules OF Reason Wre are willins
co procced, and not by any late and un-
certam methods ot interpretine Scri-
DEuTC.
3. We difter noc with them about tho
righe use ot the Faculties which God hath
siven us, Ot righe Onderstandins Tueh
matters