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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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eakens the Proots ot the immortalitu et
TheSOul, viz. That Cod may sive, or have
siven, for any chine ve lnom, to some Sistems
ef Matrer, a Porver to perceive, and thinte:
and hereone mon d expeet he Mou d have
Memn hor this Supposition weakens the
Proots oEthe Souls Immortaliy; but aII
his Objections arc asainst the probabilier
olthe Supposition, and to Mew the diffi-
culties ot conceirins hon Matcer Mou d
hare such a Porrer; rrhich he entarges
upon in his 3d Remark, and has leveral
Pases to that purpose, For nhat realon I
knom not, sinco Mr. Lock allos it to De
hiehls probable that the soulis Immate
rial, but rrhere heis speakins ot Demon-
Stration, onlr Cays that ris noc impossible,
for any thins me hnom, that Cod maz. sire.
Ox hare siren, to lomeSystems os Matter,
disposdas he seco At, a Porver to perccire
and think. But my Delion beins onty to
vindicate MIT. LockS Principles trom the
danserous Conteguences imputedto them
Dy the Remarker, LMaIl not enter into
that Disputo; and I think MT. Lock haS
Paid enough in his lase AdditiOMS, t0 L-
lence the Trinmph ot such Portot Argu
ments, drann trom the unconceiveableness
of somethino in one Typochesis, Wrhich cannOt
De a proot ot the contrury Ovinion, in
Wrhich there arc things altocether a5 incx-
Plicable, and as tar remotetrom our com-
prehension. AII the Demonstration we
ean hare trom uch disticulties, is of the
reatnels and scantinels oE our Knom ledse
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