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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 244

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  1. A Vindication of
  2. From whence ic Follows, Fhat wemay
  3. be cerrain of che Beins ol a Spirituat
  4. Substance, althoush re have no clear and
  5. distinet Idea Ot it, nor are able to compre-
  6. hend the manner of its Operations: And
  7. theretore IE 15 a vam chins in any 10
  8. pretend, that all our Realon and C er-
  9. tainey is founded on clear and distinct
  10. Ideas; and that cher have Realon to re-
  11. ject any Dectrine Which relates to Spiri-
  12. tual Substances, because they cannotcom
  13. prehend the manner oC it. Forthe lame
  14. chins is consessed by the moct inquiluire
  15. Nlen, about che manner ot Operation,
  16. boch in material, and immateriat Substan-
  17. Sect. 31. ces. Icis affirmed, That the very Notion
  18. of Body implies somethine very hard, if
  19. not impossible to be explained, or understood
  20. Byus; and that the natural Consequence of
  21. it, VI2. Divisibilitr; involves us in Dissi-
  22. culties impossible to be explicated, or made
  23. consisteni. That ve have but some feu Su-
  24. perficiat Ideas of thines; that ve are de-
  25. stitute of Faculties, to attain to the true
  26. Nature ofthem; and that When ve de that,
  27. ve fall presentlr into Dartness and Obscu-
  28. riti; and can discover nothine farther, but
  29. our von Blindress and Tenorance.
  30. Thele are very Pair and insenvOUS
  31. Confections ol the Mortnels OE humune
  32. Onder.
  33. S0ct. 32

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 244. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0316?run=74