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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 87

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.82.

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The machine reads it as

  1. anc
  2. Vh
  3. Ca
  4. asit 5
  5. 18
  6. a
  7. the
  8. Ma
  9. MIIII
  10. bei
  11. the Doctrine of the Friniey.
  12. Nature, or divine Properties; Whrereas
  13. he is (0 lar trom sivins Tuch an anliver,
  14. that he absolurelr denies chat there can
  15. be more Ciods than one in that verv
  16. place. He mentions it a5 an Objecti-
  17. on, that lince he Caid, That the l’ather
  18. is 60d, the Son Cod, the TToly Chost
  19. C0d; he must hold three Gods; co Wtrich
  20. he anliers, We oun, but one God, not in
  21. Number, but in Nature: Then Cay they,
  22. TLe held but one G0d in Nature and more
  23. in Number. Thac is (0 Far From his mean-
  24. inS, thac Phardr chinke ans chat read the
  25. Pastase in S. Basil, could (o wiltuly per-
  26. vere his meanine. Forhis intention WaS
  27. (0 Far trom assertins more Gods in Number,
  28. that it vas to prove (o perfect a Onity
  29. in Cod, that he wasnor capable ot num-
  30. ber, or oE beins more than onc. FOr,
  31. Caith he, That Wwhich is said to be one in
  32. Number, is not realty and simply one, but
  33. is made up of many, Which by composition
  34. become one; a5 ve Cay, the worid is one
  35. vhich is made ux of many thines. But Cod
  36. is a simple uncompounded Beine; and there-
  37. fore cannot be said to be one in Tumber. But
  38. therorid is not one by Nature, because it is
  39. made up of se many thines, but it is one by
  40. Number, as those severat parts make but
  41. one Worid. Is noc chis fair dealine ich
  42. Fuch a Nan a5 S. Basil, eo reprelene his
  43. d
  44. Set

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 87. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0159?run=74