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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 239

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  1. LeS
  2. DM
  3. ab.
  4. 1b.
  5. ut
  6. AP
  7. the Doctrine of the Priniey.
  8. is (0 just, and true an Idea, FhaE WWithOUE
  9. ic the complication of simple Ideas, wil
  10. never siro us a riotue Norion of it.
  11. Imust do that Riohe eo the ingenious
  12. Auctor OF the FPay of humane Vnderstan-
  13. ding (From Wrhence these Nocions are bor-
  14. rowed to serve ortier Purposes than he
  15. intended them) chat he makes che Case
  16. Ot Spiritual, and Corporeat Substances tobe
  17. alikO, aS FO tHCI Ldeas, and ebat we have
  18. asclear a Notionof a Spirit, as ve have of
  19. a Body, the one beine supposed to be the
  20. CBaD. 25.
  21. Substratum to those simple Ideas ve have sect. 5.
  22. from withoui and the other of those Opera-
  23. tions ve find withinour selves. And that
  24. it is as rational to affirm, there is no Body.
  25. because ve cannot tenow its Fsence, a5 tIS
  26. called, or have no Idea of the Substance of
  27. Matter; a5 to say, there isno Spirit, be-
  28. cause we knou not its Fssence, or have no
  29. Idea of a Spirituat Substance.
  30. From hence iE FollOWs, That ve mar
  31. De certain, that there are Boch spiritual
  32. and Bodily Substances, althoveh Wve can
  33. trave noclear and distinet Ldeas of them. BUE,
  34. ifour Reason depend exon our clear and di-
  35. stinct Tdeas; how isthis postible: We can-
  36. notreason wichout clear Ideas, and y et Wwe
  37. mar be certain Withoue ehiem: Can We
  38. De certain rithout Realon: Or doth our
  39. Realon

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 239. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0311?run=74