A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 233
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- the Doctrine of the Prinier.
- excludes all cerraintr oF Faith or Realon,
- ahere e cannoc have luch clear and di-
- stinct Ideas. Butifthere are many chings
- ot Whrich ive may becertain, and set can
- have ro clear and distinet Ideas ol chem;
- if those Ideas we have, are to0 imperfect
- and obleure ro form our fudoments by:
- ifire cannor find out sufficient interme-
- diate Ideas; thenthis cannot De the Means
- OF Certainey, or the Foundation et Reason.
- But I MaII kecptoour present Subject;
- and our cerrainer ot it in Point ot Rea-
- Ton, depends upon our Rnomledge oF rhe
- the Nacure oF Substance, aud Person aud
- the Distinction between them: but il Wve
- ean have no such clear Ideas in our Minds
- concernins thele chinss, a5 are required
- Fromsensation, or Reftection; then, cither
- We hraveno ule ot Reason about thiem, or
- it is in sufficient to pals any Judemene
- concernine them.
- r. Ibecin with che Nocion OF Sub
- stance. And Thave oreat Reason to begin
- wich ic; for, accordins to this MansPrin-
- ciples there ean beno certainty ol Reason
- at all about it. And lo our new Way ot
- Reason is advanced tovery s00d Purpole
- For wemay talk and dispute about Sub
- stance, a5 lone as we pleale, but, if his
- Principles oF Realon betrue, re cancome
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 233. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0305?run=74