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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 268

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The machine reads it as

  1. AVindication of
  2. Buc let us lay thete thines together.
  3. Whacever re can have no adequate Idea
  4. et is above our Rnouledce, aud conse-
  5. quenely above our Reason; and (0 aII Sub
  6. stances are above our Reason; and s et he
  7. saich, with great Contidence, That 10
  8. assent to any thing; above Reason, destroys
  9. Relicion, and the Nacure of man. and the
  10. Wrisdom and Goodness of Cod. Ilo is it
  11. Polsible for the lame man colas this, and
  12. eo lay withal, chac it is very consictent with
  13. chat rature ofman, andtheCoodne seand WVis-
  14. dom of God, to leave us withour adequate
  15. Ideas oFany Substance: Hlow comethe My-
  16. steries ef Faith to require more Rnomledee
  17. than che Nature of Man is capable ot:
  18. In natural chinos re can haveno adequate
  19. Ideas; buc the things are contesled to bc
  20. above our Reason; but in Divine and Spi-
  21. ritual chinss, 10 assent to thines above our
  22. Rea son is azainst the Nature of man.
  23. Nor can chese thines consist:
  24. But these arenot Nysteries. Tes, Wvhat
  25. ever is ol that Nature chat ive can have
  26. no Idea ot it, is certainy a Mystery t0 US.
  27. For hat is more untenoon chan ic is
  28. bnomnis a Mystery. Thetrue NocionOl
  29. a Mystery beins Pomethins chat is hidden
  30. trom our Rnomledse. OF utrich chere
  31. may be leveral Rinds. For a Mystery may
  32. becatien For,
  33. L. SOmen

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 268. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0340?run=74