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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 60

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  1. AVindication of
  2. stance Phad produced in my Sermon, E0
  3. ter that e might be obliged to believe
  4. such chines concernins God, oF which
  5. ve cannot have a elear and distinet NO-
  6. tion; as that God vas trom all Eternitr
  7. althouoh re cannor conceive in our
  8. minds, hour he could be from himsef
  9. Now, Wrtrat saith the 2nitarian to this,
  10. Who precendedco Ansiver me: HIe Caith,
  11. cerm. D. . f E0d must be fromhimsels, then an Fter-
  12. nal Godis a Contradiction; for that implies
  13. that he vas before he was; and so charges
  14. me with esponsine the cause of Atheists. I
  15. vistr our 2nitarians vere astree tromthis
  16. Charse as Pam. Butthis is malicious ca-
  17. villing. For my delion ras only tostieu,
  18. that we could have no distinct conception
  19. ot Comethine which e are bound eobe-
  20. lieve. For upon all accounts re arebound
  21. to beliere an Fternal. God, and vet we
  22. cannot form a diltinet and clear Idea oFthe
  23. manner of it. Whecher being trom him.
  24. TelF Detaten positively, or necativelr, the
  25. matteris notcleared; the one is Absurd,
  26. andthe ocher Inconccirable by us. But
  27. CilIICaY, it is a thins chat ve are bound
  28. tobeliere Aedtastly, althouch it is above
  29. our comprehention. But instead of An-
  30. Tverins tothis, he runs out into an Pxa
  31. mination of onc notion ol Eterniey: and
  32. s. 10

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 60. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0132?run=74