A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 285
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- the Doctrine of the Frinier.
- oE ocher Actributes as they belons
- tohim, a5 chey are insinite, (o they arc
- above our Comprehension. (L.) AS 10
- Eternitr, Cay chey, it is a clear and di-
- stinct Notion of Pternity. 10 lay, it is a du-
- ration vithout becxinnine and without end.
- But we can have no clear and distinct
- Notion of Duration, Wrhen applied to aBC.
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- Duration, they lay, consists in a Succession.
- And Wrhat Succession can there be in a BC-
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- thelame Beine belore time Was, and 15
- the very lame Beins under ail che ditse.
- rences ot times; he hach noc any octier
- Duration no than he had betore, and
- erhac Succection could chere be irhere
- there Was no time: But we makre usc of
- Duration With respect to thines donc in
- time, and tor the help ot our understand.
- ines apply the meature ot time to divine
- ActS. But in a necessarr Sxistence, there
- ean be no past, present, or to come; and
- in a successive Duration, there must Be
- conceired a lonser continuance Trom
- time ro cime; ihrich is repusnane to the
- Notion oF a BeiDs, Wluch aliraySIS. 50
- chat, il re cannor conceive Pternity wich
- OuE Duration, nor Duration Wihout Su
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 285. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0357?run=74