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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 66, page id 797937889:0078
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66
may come, that it prevents, or is before
any Raticionation, tho it is realty dri effect
ot it, ouly operatins without cakine non
Tice ot its cause; as in ocher Cales, the li-
kinss or avertions ot the Mind, 10 ThinZS,
Or Pertons, mar be oblerrdto do, irhich
harins been at Arst produed br fome out-
Ward Caule, fomme Crood, or Fril, re hare
found, or heard, or apprehended et tholo
Thinss, Or Persons, the lame affection
constantir exerts it seIF at their prelence,
Withoue ans reflection on the Caulc, oi
verhapsthe least sense chat it ever hac a
KnOWHCaUSC.
And ehis fucden affection in Moral Cg
ses, is indced ot excellent usc, wrtien it is
once set on more by an enlichined Fudement,
tokreep up the distinction ot Cio0d and
Fris, to incite, or to b0 a check uxon
Mens Actions, in the heac ot a Tempta-
cion, ertien ther hare neither time nor
pover to reaton the Cale, or 1o reffect
upon the Instruetions hare been siren
them; and thus mas be trulr calld the
Suppore of Natural Relision; Or a5 the A:
Dostle PayS, a witness accusino or excusimo
those who have no other Law but that os
Nature DuE must not theretore Be taten
FOr the Law it seltus or as the Remarter
callsit, the Fonndation of Natural Religion
Dut rather Natural Religion for the Founda-
tion of it; and then it mas wieh FaFety De
relyd on. Theretore Philosophers, and
Dirinesu havins mostls wriefor Tuch a5
hare had in Ceme meature a Rnomledse ot
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