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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 69, page id 797937889:0081
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lappeal to theRemarker, Whether this
is noc theonis ras ot dealins mith a Man
aeho has been Educated trom his intancy
in false Principles, contirmd by ricious
Habits, and che approbation oE aII hiS
Companions, Whether such a Man maz
notbr Reflection and Reason be correctedus
and convincdoF the Natlral Oblisations
vihich the Creator has laid on him, a5 4
Rational, Sociable, aud Dependent Crea-
ture. This Idoubenor the Remarker nil
allo, his ZCal FOr an Innare Liehr Will
noc transport him (0 far a5 to put out the
Liohe of Reason, That iE may MInC AIOnC,
and leare Men irrecorerabls in the dart,
in rtom this Lishit of Conscience happens
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not sec by what Ratiocination ve can col=
lect what theWill of G0d ii unless ve take
in Natural Conseience for a distinction of
600d and Fvil. Phope on Farther consi-
deration, and ntrat lhare betore Caid on
that Subject, he will not dens the consi.
Aenes oF our Duey toReaton, and the
Fridence oF it t0 ali iho diligenelr IcE
themselres to hnou it; That mon dindecd
De an indionity to Mantind, and a great
incratitude to our Mlaker: But aII Who Per-
ccire the reatonablenels oF rrhat is requI
red oF us, the necessitr ot it for the pre-
serration or perfection ot our Nature; au
whoread thewill et Cod in his Wisdom,
must acknomledse chac he has not been
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crecepis ot Haturat Relieion mas he
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