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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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I have more fuity Teun hou re come
by the Idea of Perfection in the Su-
pream Beins) the Remarker mar per-
ceire, that Wre can in NIT. LockS way,
arrire to the Orismal Notion oF in-
trinsick FTolinels, into which tis ulti.
matelr relolvd. Wtrich he is l0 much
concernd to find and that I hope wili
reconcile him to MC. Locks Princi-
Ples.
And iE he rill attentively examine
his omn without Prepossession, il ne
Will traco his Idea ot God, and ot
Moral Good and Fvil, to their first
Source, I beliere he Will find he has
no ottier Principle of lnowledee than
NIT. Lock; and that the Mistake lies, in
that beins taushit Truths alter they arc
discoverd, and findine them agrecable
to our Realon, re immediatetr alsent
to them, without sellectine hou they
ivere first found out, and are apt t0
conclude those thines wtich ure find
First in our Rnowledse, tobo the Airst
Principles ot Rnomledse; tho ther vere
proceeded to Dy many Steps and De-
B. R. P.
Srees, aud vere the last oltablisti a in
the Ditcorerr.
But the Remarker Wrill obicet that
MIr. Lock does noc ectabli Moralitr
uxon the Nlature ot Man, and the Na
ture OF Cod, but seems 10 ground Bis De- 2. R. p.
monstration upon P’uture Punisbments and
Revaras and upon the debitrary Will of
the Lan. Civer; and he does not think these
the