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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 266

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The machine reads it as

  1. A Vindication os
  2. Senle; bur the Debate doth not depend
  3. upon che Word, buc uron the sense of it.
  4. And cheretore Ipals over aIl that re-
  5. lates tothe bare use oF che Nord, a5 noc
  6. cominq up ro the man Poine; which IS,
  7. Wrhecher any Point ot Doctrine, wrhich
  8. contains in it lomethine abore our Com
  9. prehension can bemade a Macter of Faith e
  10. For our Auchor concludes trom his
  11. Oblervarions, That Faith is so far from
  12. beine an implicit Assent to any thine above
  13. Reason, that this Notion directlr contra-
  14. dicts the end of Relicion, the Nature of
  15. Man, and the 60odness and Wisdom of
  16. C0d.
  17. But we must not be frishted with chis
  18. bold Conclusion, till re have lxamin dhis
  19. Premises; and ehen we MaIl Andu chac
  20. fome whoare not creat Readers, are no deep
  21. Reasoners. The Crst thins lie premiles IS
  22. That nothine can be said to be a Mystery,
  23. because me have not an adequate Idea of it,
  24. or adistinct Vieu of al ils Properties at
  25. once, for then every thine vould be a My
  26. stery. Whac is the meanine ot this, buE
  27. that ve cannot have an adequate idea ot
  28. any chins: And ret aIl our Realon de-
  29. pends upon our Ideas accordinq eo him,
  30. and our clear and distinet Ideas are by him
  31. made the sole Foundation of Reason. AII
  32. OuF

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 266. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0338?run=74