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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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No innate Principles.
of God FTimsels. Nor do I sec how it derogates more From the Good
Hels oF Crod that he lias siven us Minus unturnisted ith thele Ideas
OE FTImSeIE, chan Fhat he hach sent us into the World, With Bodies un
eleathed; and thar there is no Art or ShiII bern ith us. For beins AE.
ted vith Faculcies to atcain chese, it is vant ot industrr, and Considera-
tion in us, and not of Bouner in Flim, il e hiare them not. Tis a5
certain, that there is a Ciod, a5 thar the oppolite Angles, mace by thC
intersection of troltrait Lines, are equal. Phere as never any rational
Creature, enat set himselfsincerely to examino the trutk ot thele Propo.
sitions, that could fail to assent to them: Thouoh vet it be palt doubi;
that tlere are matir isen, Who havins nor applied their Thouohes thai
rar, are isnorant both of the one and the other. IE ary one thinte
At ro call this (Which is the urmost oEits extent) univertal Conserit, sucH
an one L casili allorr: Bur such an univertal Consent as this, proves nOL
the Idea oF6od, no more than it does the Idea oF luch Angles, innate.
5. 27. Since then though che bnomledse ot a GOD, be the most na-
cural discovery of humane Reason, ret the Idea of him, is not innate, as,
thirik, is evident from irhat has been laid; Limasine there will be scarce
anr other Idea Found, that ean pretend to it: (ince it God had lett any
natural impressiors on the Inderstandins of Men, it is most reasonable
to expeet it thould hare been lome Characters ot ITimselF, as tar as oyp
eal Capacities evere capable to receive (o incomprehensible and infinite
an Object. But our Minds beins, at tirst, void ot that Idea, Which We
are most concerned to have, it is a strone presumption acainst ail other in-
nate Characters. Imustorn, as tar as Pean observe, Pean find none, and
trould be slad eo De informed Dy any other.
5. X8. Tcontels, chere is another Idea, Wtrich vould be oP general use
For Mantrindto hare, as it is of generalcal as il thes hadic; and that is
ehe Idea of Substance, Whieh e neither have, nor can have, Dy Sensari-
on Or Reftection. TF Nature took care to provide us any Ideas, We mighe
ell expect it Bould be uch, as by our omn Faculties we carinot procure
Foourselres: Butwresee on the contrari, chat lince Dy tholewars Wrheretr
octer Pdeas dre brouoht into our Minds, thisis not, We have no lucti
clear Idea at all, and cherefore lignitie nothine by the rord substance, but
only an uncertain supposition of e hnom nor What; i. e. OF lomethino
Wrhereofre have no Idea, Wrhich wetakre to De the substrarum, Or sUIpPOrE,
Ofthole Ideas We do knoi.
6. 29. Whaterer then e talk ofinnate, cither speculative, or practical:
Principles, itmaz, rith as much probabilier, be said, That a Man hach à
200l. Cerlins in his pochet, and vet deny chat he hach there cither Pen
ny. Stilling. Crown, or arii ocher Coin, out of which the sum is to be
inade up; as to thinte, that certain Propoltions are irinate, wrhen the
Idea sabout which cherarc, ean by no means besuppoledtobe (0. ThCgC:
neral reception and assent chat is siven, doth not ac aII prove, that the
Ideas expressed inthem, are innate: For in many cales, hovever the
Ideas camethere, the afsenc to Nords expressine the aereement, or dila-
creement, oF such Ideas, Will necessarily Sollou. Fvery orie chat hath à
true Idea oFGod, and Worstrip, illassent to chis Propolitiori, That Crod
is to be orcripped, irhen expressed in à Laricuase he understands: And
every rational Man, that hath not thought ori it to dar, mar be readr +o
ANONE EO FHISPFODOLILION EO MOTTOW; and vet milliors oF NIen maY DC
Well supposed to vant onc, or both, ol thole Ideas to day: For it ve
vill allor savares, and most Conntry-people, to have Ideas ot 60d and
Worsip (ahich converlation with them, will noc make one forrard to
Beliere,