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# Title: A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 3; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 3)
# Folio 10, page id 797937889:0022
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C. 10
zion ot them but by their Conformier
Or Repusnaner to our Realon, and vith
relation to our Nature; and that Wtrae
accordine t0 it e perceire to be soou,
re alcribe to the Suprcam Beins; For
re cannot kenor that the Nature ot God
25 Cood. betoree harea Notionot Crooc;
ut must be then by reftectins upon our
oon Nature, and the Overations ot our
Ninds, thatre come toknon the Nature
Ot Giod; Which theretore cannot be to us
the Rule ot Cood and Fril, unlels we Wis
ardue in a Circle, that by our Ntotion ot
Cood re knon thenature ot God, and by
theNature oF CTod, We know wtrat isCiood.
From whenco it will Follow, that the
Nature oF Man, and the 00d ot Socie.
+r, arc to us the Reaton and Rule oF
Poral Ciood and Pvil; and there is no
danser ot their beins lels immutable
on thisfoundation than any other, vhilst
Man continues a Rational and Sociable
Creature: IF the Law ot Nature
25 the Produet ot JTuman Nature
at TelF (a5 the Crreat Crotrus Spcaks)
ut must subsist as lons as Tluman Nature;
Nor willthis Foundation makie it the less
Sacred, since it cannot be doubred, that
ut is orisinally the WiIl ot God, Whilst
re oun him the Author ot that Nature,
ot erhrich this Lar is a Contequence.
IE then in MT. Locks var wre can
perceire wtrat is Contormable, or not,
10 our oon Nature, Wrhich cannot be
doubted; il by refsectins on our selres,
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