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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 42, page id 797937889:0054
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4.
I cannot here forbear lakins notice,
hor little serrico thes do to Relision,
Wrho ectablim the main Principles ot it
upon fuch an uncertain foundation, as the
Nature ot a thins, oE which we arc 10
very ionorant, a5 we certainly arc, et
What the Sont is. ITer Operations re hare
Clear Ideas ot, and theretore trom our ca-
pacits ot discernins and chusine cood or
Fril; and trom thePorver, Wildom, aud
Coodnels oFCiod, whichme mascertanli
Hnor to bclons to his Nature; we hare
very sood Arsuments, and great proba
Dilities ot a Future state ot Punimments,
aud Rerards; luch as no considerins Man
can deur, and rrithin crery ones Under-
ctandins. But rhieu thesouls Immorta-
lity is laid to depend upon such Supnosi-
tions aS This, That the Sout alvays thintes, Or
ThaE IEiS Immaterial, What can thc con:
lequence De, bue, tomakre Men think they
hare very licele alturance ot a Future Lite,
ertien cher Aind chemselres so much in the
dark as co those Principles upon which it
is Cllablid, that tho srcateit Proots ot
them are dranu trom our lgnorance: AS
thac We cannor conceive hon Matrer Mould
De capablo oF Tuch and Tuch POrers as ve
perccire in the Soul; or (as the Remarker
Obicets) nhat che Soul 15, Wrhen MC 15
rithout chouehts.
But con d cheImmaterialitr oF the Soul
beprordtoDeascertain, a5 it is highir
probable, ic cannerer be ot sood conse-
GueMLCC, and mas DedanserOUS, IO IaL C
tha