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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 256

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The machine reads it as

  1. AVindication of
  2. IF our Ideas be only the Fflects wefect
  3. et the Povers ot chines withourus; vei
  4. our Reason must be latistied, thac chere
  5. could be no such Povers, untels there
  6. evere lome real Beines irhich had them.
  7. Sothat either we mar be certain by thole
  8. Efects ot che real Beins oF Things; Or
  9. it is not possible, as re are tramcd, to
  10. have any cerrainty ac all of any chine
  11. Withoue our Cclves.
  12. 2. Thac trom ehe Povers and Proper-
  13. ries ot things wrhichi are knomable by US,
  14. ve may hno as much of che internal
  15. Fssence oF Thinss, a5 chole Povers aac
  16. Properties discover. 1d0 not Cay, That
  17. re can lenor all Psences ot chinss alitie;
  18. nor thac re ean acrain to a pertect un
  19. derstandins of all chat belons eo them:
  20. but il we can lnoir lo muchi, asthat therC
  21. arc certain Beines in che Worid, endued
  22. rith such distinet Povers and Properties,
  23. What is ic we complain ot che ant ot,
  24. in order to our Cerrainty oF ThinsS: But
  25. ve do not sec the bare Esence of things.
  26. Wrhac is that hare Fssence ithout cho
  27. Povers and Properties Belonsins 10 It3
  28. Ie is that internat Constitution of thines
  29. from uhence those Povers and Properties
  30. Rou. Suppole e beignorant otchis (a5
  31. re are like to be, tor any Dilcoveries
  32. that

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 256. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0328?run=74