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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 284

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The machine reads it as

  1. AVindication of
  2. Who beforethem did understand themean-
  3. ins LODC, That ve cannot comprehend that
  4. there is a God: Thisis not mere tristine.
  5. For it looles like Pomethine worle; and
  6. vet ther presencly alter Pay, That tocom
  7. prehend a thine is to have a clear adequate
  8. Conception ofrit. And will cher precend
  9. to have Cuch a one ot the divine Esence,
  10. ertien ther contess but a lictle betore,
  11. That ve converse every day with verr ma-
  12. ny thines, none of which ve comprehend,
  13. and that l miche have spared my pains in
  14. provine it: Buc irhat can be the mean-
  15. ins ot chese layinss, They cannot compre-
  16. hend the common Natures of thines, nOE
  17. hrave a clear and distinet Idea ol them,
  18. butther can comprehend an infinite Beine.
  19. ertiom all Mantsind ovn eo De incompre-
  20. hensible. But astodivine Attributes, chey
  21. PaY, They have clear distinct and adequate
  22. Conceptions of them; and inltance in siter-
  23. nier, Pover, Wisdom and Fustice. Wedo
  24. noc deny chat in such Actributes irtrich
  25. e applyto cod, becaule ire find them
  26. to be Perfections in us, we have a dictinct
  27. and elear Perception ol them, as ther are
  28. consider d in themselves, For that is the
  29. realon erhiy e actribute them to God.
  30. But For such a5 peculiarly belons 10
  31. Cod a5 Pternity doch; and For the de-
  32. Trees
  33. 2dA
  34. 8. 5.

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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 284. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0356?run=74