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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 286

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.88.

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The machine reads it as

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  3. Wwhich HacM necessari Fxistence, chen we
  4. ean Have no clear and distinet Notion of
  5. CodS Eterniey. (2.) AS tO the Infinite.
  6. ness ob Ciods Perfections, thevolay, That
  7. althoueh the Mind be in it sels finite, ret il
  8. hath an infinité Comprehension, for what is
  9. finite with respect to ils Extension of parts
  10. may be infinite in other respects, and with
  11. respect +0 some of its Povers. But hOW
  12. doch it appear that we tiave any Pover
  13. to comprehend Wtat is insinire: AII the
  14. Pover We have extends onty to addine
  15. and entareine our Ideas wittiont Bounds,
  16. I. C. WC Can puc no AOD EO our apprehen-
  17. SiOnS, BuE AiII they may 90 Farther than
  18. Wre can possibl chinte, buc is this an in-
  19. finite Comprehension: S0 tartrom ic, that
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  23. ean never 90 (o far, but re may Aill 90
  24. tarcher: Duc ic is impossible For our un.
  25. derstandins eo have distinet Ideas oF the
  26. infnire momenes in an eternal SuCCeM-
  27. on OF the utmost Bounds oE ImmensiEY.
  28. Or OF FHC CXFEME OE infinite POVer and
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  30. finire implies, thac we can sec no bounds
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A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, fol. 286. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/727097563:0358?run=74