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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)
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that very thine Mors it to be our in-
dispentable Duty, and of Divine Autho.
rier, ithout any Revelation, since ele
Divine Wortemanctuip. Fluman Nature
cond not subsist withour it; IF they
coud prove it unpolitick or diltsuctivo
to Socictr, it voud be much moie For
their purpole; for Tuch a Relision musE
necessarilr be talse; nothins con De à
am t0 Nature, Which ol dixect Conse-
quence non d destroy Nature.
But if anr one thinks it beiter olta
blith d on the Nature ot Cod, I have
Bheun hou re come to the lnomlodse
OF it in HIr. LockS Wrar, by alcribirs
to hum irtraterer by its Contormity to
Our Nature re perceire to De GoOd;
because re sec that re cannot admit
auy imperfection in the Supream. BC.
inE, Without a Contradiction (Which
I nali Inem in UIT. Locks Way, wrtien
i core to the next Hlead) and havine
by the Lffect Found out the C’ause, e
nay then conclude the Nature ot G0d
to be the Arch. Irpe ot ours, because
re carinot suppole the most Pertect
Beins can will aur thins contrarr to his
ovn Nature; For il he coud, the Rule
Ot that Will must De Comethins lels Per-
Fect than himselE, (For erhaterer is molt
Perfect is God) and therctore to will
ans thins contrary to his omn. Na
ture; roud be an imperfection in tum,
erhich to admit in the most perteet
Beins, is a Contradiction. Fhus (When