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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
matters aS are OHer d eO OUT AHCnE. FON
it is eono purpose to require themto be-
liere, Wrho cannorulerhe Faculties Whieh
are neceltar in order toit. Which Would
De like sirins che Benesit of the Clerq
eo a Man Wrich a Cataract in boch his
Ryes. And it would be very unrealona-
ble to put his Lite uxon that iuc, irhe-
cher hecould read or noc, becaulehe had
che same Orcans of Secins that ocher Men
had; for in this case che irhole matter de-
Dended not on the Orcan but the 2se OF
it: This necds no ApplicatiOn.
4. We ditter not with ehem about re-
jectine lome Macters propoled to our Be-
liet, Which are contradictory to the Prin-
ciples of Sense and Reason. IE iS HO GrCAE
arsument oF fome Mens Reason, Wrhrat-
evercher pretend to talke asainst admit-
tine seemine Contradictions in Relirion:
for irho can hinder seemine Contradicti-
ons Wtrich arise trom the Mallomnels
OtMens Capacities, and nortrom the re-
pusnanes ot Thinos: and wrhio can help
Mens Onderstandines: But wrhere there
is evident proot ot a Contradiction t0 thC
Principles et Sense and Reason; we are ve-
ry tar trom omnins any such chins to De
an Arciele oF Faith, as in the cale ot Tran-
substanciarion. Wtieli We reject, nOL On.