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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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108
Of the Principles
Part I.
Men into an acknowledoment ot che
OF the Dirinc Beng: Buc chen ther arc
to bc uscd but seldom, ocherrise therc
is a plain rcalon, tr cher soud tail
et chac Effect. Belides, C0d lecms t0
choole the conrincins our Reason of
his Accributes by che vorts ot Nature.
Wrtrich discorer so much FParmonr and
Contrirance in their Make, and are
such plain Indications ot Wildom and
Beneticence in cheir Author, rather chan
ro actonim us into a bcliet ot his Beino
by ariomalous and surprilins Erents.
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clearer Light, I Mall obserre thac Whac
has been objected in Sect. LX. aImOUnES
in realier co no more than this. Ideas
acc noc any hoir and ac random pro-
duced, there being a certain Order and
Connexion becireen them, like eo chac
ot Causc and Ffect: There arc allO le-
veral Combinations ot them, made in
a verr Resular and Arcificial Manncr.
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