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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 242

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The machine reads it as

  1. A Vindication of
  2. much more remote from our Comprehension
  3. to conceive that60d can, if he pleases, super-
  4. add to our Idea of Matrer a Faculry os
  5. Thinkine, than that he phould super-add 10
  6. it another Substance, with a F’aculty ef. T hint-
  7. inc. Whoever alteris this, Can never prove
  8. a Spiritual Substance in us, from a F’aculty
  9. of Thinkins; Decause he cannor knor
  10. trom the Idea of Marter and Thinkine, that
  11. Macter (0 disposed cannor Think. And
  12. he cannoc be cerrain thac cod hath nor
  13. Framed the Matter OE our Bodies, (0 25
  14. eo bc capable oF IF.
  15. 30oL IV. IE is Paid indeed clsertiere, That it is
  16. Chap. 10. repugnant to ihe Idea of Senstess Malter,
  17. Bock IL.
  18. CBap. 23.
  19. that il sould put into it self Sense, Per-
  20. cepiion and sinomledse: Buc chis doch not
  21. reach chepresen: Case; Which is nornhat
  22. Matrer can do of ic self, but Wrhat Matter
  23. preparcd by an Omniporent hand can do.
  24. And erhac certainey can mehave chac he
  25. hath noc done it: We can havenone from
  26. the Ideas; For those are siven up in chis
  27. Cale; and consequenelr, re can have
  28. ne certainey upon chele Principles, irhe
  29. cher Wrehaveany Spiritual Substance with.
  30. In US Or BOL.
  31. But reare cold, That from the Opera-
  32. tions of our Minds, ve are able to frame
  33. (est. 15. the Complex Idea of aSpirit. IOW can
  34. tha
  35. A
  36. Sevt 3.

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 242. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0314?run=74