A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XLIX
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The machine reads it as
- Tbe D R F F AC F.
- TI. Thenext is, to represent Church. meri
- as Perlons ot Interest and Delien, Who
- maintain Relicion only because it supports
- them; and this they cal Priest. Crate, and
- is they can by this means take avay their
- Authority t00, the way lies still more open
- for them; for it is more easie to mate a
- Prey of the Flock, When the Shepherds
- are suspected onty to loot after their Fleeces.
- Since such a suspicion takes avar al Trust
- and Considence in their Ouides; and they
- knou very well, hou little others oilt be a
- ble to defend themselves.
- III. Another step is, to magnisie the De-
- iAts as Men of Probity and go0d Senle;
- that assert the just Liberties of Mankind,
- acainst that terrible thine called Priest.
- Crate; and that vould rescue Relicion from
- false Ctosses and absurd Notions taken up
- from the Schools and tauche intheniver-
- EItIeS, on purpose to keepunder those Princi-
- ples of universat Liberty as to Opinions
- Which those offreer Minds endeavour to pro-
- mote. Dut especially they are great Rne-
- mies to alt MyCeries oF Faith, as unreaso-
- nable Impositions on those of more refined
- Onderstandings, and of clear and dictinet
- PercePEIOnS, as they have learnt to express
- themselves. These they account intolerable
- surpations on Men of such EleVaTIOnS as
- Them–
- xlix
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. XLIX. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0055?run=74