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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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CAF
postion cannot lessen our securitr ot it
and that thes do nor depend uxon it, L
think necds not Deprovd, no Body that I
Hno ot did erer otter this Proposition;
Thatthe Soul does alvays thinte, 25 a proot
et its immortalier; and the Reatons we
hare to expect a Future state, are ot such
a Nature, chacthes can reccire HO Force
trom it, nor lose anr by the contrary
Supposition: Jhe Remarker on another
Occasion, Tells Mr. Lock, the srounds ot
Revards arc, thatrhere is a presace of them
from Natural Conscience; and chot they are
deducible fromthe Wature of Cod is ve alloro
him Moral Aerributes. Nor it is erident
thai neither ot these tro gronnds can lose
ans ottheir force upon this suppolition,
Phat the sout docs not chink in sound
Slecp, and will not ther secureus tlat me
Mallnot continue in thisstcep atter Dcach:
IE not, Why docsthe Remarker mention
them as Proots ot a Future state: But it
they do prore it, why docs he lay he
cond mate ont no certain Proof of the Im-
morrality of ihe Soul upon ihis Supposition,
that it is somerimes witbont thonebes? Since
those Proots he mentions remain in their
Fullforce, normithscandins chis supposition.
Lhus havins Mern, chat all theConsequon
ces the Remarkeer dranstrom MI. LockS
Supposition are mithout grounds, l may
With alturance conclude, thar ic is oF no
consequence to the Immortaliey of thc
Soul, nor does at all mealen an proot
Ot ib
Can
BR. P. 13.