A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 7
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The machine reads it as
- the Doctrine of the Frinier.
- vould makrero a Fury, he is atraid to be
- condemned by.
- Buc wrhac chen is the peculiar lighe
- Wrhich chele haver men have found in a
- corner, the rant whereol hath made the
- Christian Church to Fall into Tuch mon-
- Strous Frrors and Contradictions: Nothine
- (Ther pretend) but the mere light ofcom–
- mon sense and reason; Wrhrich they call at-
- ter a more retined ray ot Ipcakine, clear
- Ideas and distinet Perceptions of things.
- Buc leaA I Bould be thouehe to mil
- reprelent them; I Will produce lome ot
- their omn exprections. In one place ther
- Cay. We denythe Articles ofthe neu Chri-
- stianity, or the Achanalian relicion, not
- because they are Mysteries, or because we do
- not comprehend them; ve deny them, be-
- cause ve do comprehend them; ve have a
- clear and distinet Perception, that they are
- not Mysteries, buc Contradictions, Impossibi-
- lities, and pure Nonsense. We have our
- reason in vain, and al science and certainty
- vould be destroyd, is we could not distin-
- suißs betveen Mesteries and Contradictions.
- And Coon atter, we are not to eive the vc- ansiver 10
- nerable name ot Mystery to Doctrines that
- my Sermon
- are contrary to natures and reasons Lieht,
- or Which destroy or contradict our naturat
- Ideas. Thele chinss I hare particular
- realon
- P. 4
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 7. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0079?run=74