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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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Ofthe Principles
ParEI
there is no Corporcal or Material Sub.
stance: IE remains cheretore that the
Causeof Idcas is an Incorporcal, actire
Substance Ox Spirit.
5 27. A Spirit is onc simple, Ondi-
vided, actire Being, 25 It perccIres I
deas, IE IS Called the Vnderstandine, and
25 It produces or ocherwile Operates a
Boucthem, it is called the Will. Hlence
Fhere can be no Idea Formed ot a 5qil
Or Spirit: For all Idcas Wvhaterer, De-
ino Passire and Tnere, vid. Sect. XXV,
ther cannot reprelene unto us, by Way
ot Imase or Likeness, chac ertrich ACS.
A litele ACcention Will make ic plain to
aur onc, thac to hare an Idca Which
Mall be like thac actire Principle oFMO-
tion and Chanse ot Ideas, is ablolutelr
impossible. Such is the NTacure OF Spi
rit or chac Which ACES, that it cannot
Be OF IE TelF Perceired, buc onlr by the
Efects Wrhuch it produceth. IF aur Man
MaII doube ot the Truch oF What is here
delivered, lec tum but reflect and cey il
he can Frame che Idca ot anr POVeE OK
decire Bems; and wrhecher he tras Idcas
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