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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
# Folio 291, page id 727097563:0363
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the Doctrine of the Frinicy.
ly, as havins no foundation in Scripture,
buc aS repuonanc ro the common Prin-
ciples ot sense and Rcalon; a5 is made
10 appear in che tro Dialorues belore-
mentiond
Buc our Onitarians tind Faule wich the
Auchor ot chem, tor layins che force ot
his arsumene upon this, That there are a considerat.
creat many more l’extsfor the Trinity than on the Ex
plicationby
are pretended for Transubstantiation; Wwhere- Dr. WV. p.
a5 many other arsuments are insilted On, 30.
and particularle ehe creat Absurditr of it
in point of Reason, Dial. 2. Trom p. 33. 10
the end. And it is not the bare number
of Texrs, Artrich he relies upon, but up-
On the greater Pvidence and Clearness ot
the Texrs on one side than on the other,
ertrich depends uxon heuratire Words,
not capable ot a literal sense ithout o.
verchrorine che Doctrine deligned to DC
proved Dy it. Sec ich Wvhat ingenuier
cheseMen treat che Detenders of che Tri
nity, andche Pnemes to Transubstantiation,
Wrhrichthes call, only a Philosophical Frror ansiver e0
the Arch
or Folly; butthe Doctrine ot the Trinity bistop, P. 21.
is charsed wichi Nonsense, Contradiction,
and impossibilities.
But Wherein chen lies the difference in
point of Reason: Forchus tarThave Bew d,
chat reare tar trom overchrovins Reason,