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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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De alcribed Far Berond Our Meatures, 10
that Being From Which e receiv d alt
our Porrers and P’aculties, and by Wrtrole
Wisdom, Porer ard Goodnels, all things
exist; for Perfection is only He hixhese
Dogree, or the best Manner oF possible
Fristence, and that the Eternal Source
oF all Beine, must exist in the most Per-
fect Manner possible, cannot De doubted,
for there canirot be a freater Absurditr
chan to suppose there mar be a more
Perfect Beins, than the Fternal Source
oF aIl Being. Thus re see hor the Idea
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derivd from sensarion and Reflection, anc
arr one who considers it, will find,
that ne has no positire Idca ol it,
and that there is nothing in that Idea
wrtrich ne has, but utrat the Objects
without him,, or the l’aculties he per-
ceires in himsele, have furnistrd him
avith; and that therctore it is necdlels
to Peck For any other Original oE it.
Havine nor got the Idca ot Porte.
etion, in MF. LockS Way, and Fonnd
that it irultnecessarily be alcrib d to the
Eternal source ot all Beine, ve must
next consider the other part ot the Ke-
artcers Ouection, Hon il includes V e-
raciti, wtich he is the more concerned
to dnor, because he lays, not ontr the
Truth of the Revelation, hut aiso of our ist. R. p8.
Facultres in other thines, depenas upon the
Veracity of their Anthor. And here he
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