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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. -

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  1. Phe Contents.
  2. tha rhere is any Idea oFGOd at all, must not- they as vell prove, not onely Reason and Under-
  3. witbstandine of necessitr suppose the contrary; be- Randins, Appecite and Volition, 1obe NOn-Rn-
  4. cause orbermise, denvine his Existence, tbey ticies; but also Phancy and Sen(e it sels; neither
  5. Boutd deny ihe Exiltence of Nochine. And of ibese falline under Senle, but oncly the Ob-
  6. hattheyaeree also with Theils in ihe same T. jects of them. Were Cod indeed Corporcal, a
  7. deq; The one denpine the F. Xistence of thac, some mistaten TheiAs suppose, vet his P Nence
  8. hich theother Aserreth, Thar an Undercanding chiesty consistine in Mind and Understandine
  9. Nacure is the Originalos allihines. This Idea) ihis of him contd not possibly be subject 10 Senle
  10. oFGod. as containine Oncliness and Singula- Bur ibat there is also Subltance Incorporeal
  11. rier in it notonely lareely Desended and made
  12. rhichherefore in its oron Naturo is Intensible
  13. eood acainst that Objection fromthe PaSan PO- and hat ihe Deier is such, willbe etscrohere De-
  14. Ircheisin; but also Proved that ihe Generalier oF monstraced.
  15. Mankeind have a Nacural Proleplis or Ancici-
  16. PaBC 634, 63)
  17. Thouxh ihe P vidence of Singutar Bodies
  18. pacion in their Minds, concernine ihe Real and Fxictins, dependupon the Informationos Sente;
  19. Actual Fxistence of such a Beine. Acheists vet ih0 Certainer of ibis very Pvidence, not
  20. but Monsters, and Anomalies of mantind. This from Sente alone, but a Complicationos ReaIon
  21. a sufsicient Confutation os ihe First Acheistick and Underctandine wish it. Sense Phancasti-
  22. Algliment.
  23. PagC633, 634
  24. Neverrheless, Thar Acheists maynot Pretend,
  25. Cal, not reachine to ihe Ab(olure Pruchosrhines.
  26. and obnoxions to Delusion. Our oron Imaginaci-
  27. ny of their Streneth to be Concealed; all their ons, taken for Sentacions and Realicies, in
  28. Parcicular Fxcextions axainst the Idea oFGOd Slcep, and By Melancholized persons rwhen a-
  29. bere Dectared, beine Pive. Their Firt Fxcepcion,
  30. That me ean haveno Tdea nor ThouBHE of an
  31. thine not Subject to Sente; muchless any F. vi-
  32. dence oPthe Exiltence chereOF. ZhC Anlver.
  33. matee. Acomicke Acheiltsrbemselves, asserrrhe
  34. Exiltenceof such thines asthey have no Senle os,
  35. AcomS, Membranes, or Pxuvious Imaxes os
  36. Bodies, nay Incorporeal SpacC. I5 ibe LXI-
  37. First. That rwbereas ihe Acheists suppose Sense Aence of Nothine; 10 be actnor ledeed rebiet
  38. eobethe Onely Knomledec, or at least Origi- falls not ander Senle, ihen not ihe Lxiltence of
  39. nal Knomledse; Sense as such is not Knom-
  40. ledee, or Understandinz; because is it mere
  41. iben everyonethat sees Lizhe and Colours, or
  42. Sects Heacand Cold, vould understand Lighc
  43. Soul and Mind. God ihe Greac Mind, 1baF
  44. Rules ihe rhole Univerle; whence our Imper-
  45. Ecet Minds derived. The Lxiltence of 1h1t
  46. God, whom no FyC can sec, Demonstraced by
  47. and Colours. Beat and Cold. Plainty proved Realon frombis L. NCCS.
  48. also From that acomicke PhiloCopty, (mhich
  49. ihe Epicurean Acheists so much pretend 10,
  50. That ihere is a Flieher Faculer of ihe Sout,
  51. mhich Judees of Senle, detects ihe Phancastry
  52. ahereos resolves Senlible Things into Incelligi
  53. ble Principles, _c. No Passion able 1o mate
  54. a Fuacement, enbero) self. or of orher rbines.
  55. The Consounded Democricus himsels, some
  56. times actnonleased sense ro be but Scemins
  57. and Phancal, and not 1o reach eo 1h0 Ab(olute
  58. Truch and KCaHeY O Chines. Ie therefore
  59. Fxploded MuaHces out es the Rank os Encicies,
  60. Because Unincellisible; concludine them 1o bc
  61. but our Oron Phancalins. Undeniably Evident.
  62. that ve have IdcaS, Nocions, and ThouBhES;
  63. es many thines thatnedet vere in Senle, and
  64. rbereotne havo no Cctiuine PhanCaTInS. A-
  65. Zhe Second Acheillick Pretence acainst ihe
  66. Idea oF God, and his Existence; from Theills
  67. oron actnomledeine Him so be Incomprehensi-
  68. BIC; from rohencerhey infer bim 1o be a Non-
  69. Enciey. Hereperhaps it may be Granced in a
  70. riebt Sense, ibat roharsoever is altocetber Un-
  71. conceivable, is cirher in Trsels, or atteast 10V5.
  72. Nochine. Hom that of PTOCaGOTAS, Tbat L verY
  73. man is che meature oF aII chines co himselF, in
  74. bis Sense Fal(e. WVhatsoever any mans strallon
  75. understandine cannos elearly comprehend, non
  76. heresore tobe presemty expunced ont of ihe Ca-
  77. calogue oE Beines. Nevertheless accordine 10
  78. ariltocle, iho Sout and Mind in a manner
  79. alIchines. This a Crrsalline Clobe, or NO-
  80. tional Worid, ibst bath some Image in it os
  81. mbatsoever is contained in the Rcal Globe of
  82. cheists arrend not 1o their onn Cogitacions. Beins.
  83. That Opinion. Tharrhereis Norhine inihe Un-
  84. 637
  85. 6
  86. But ihis Absolutely Palse; That whatsoever
  87. dersandins whieh mas not before in Sente, Fal(e eannos be fully Comprehended byns, is iberefore
  88. and acheillical. Men havins a Nocion of a uterty unconceirable, and consequensto No-
  89. vertect Understandins Beins, ihe Cause oFalI) chins. For e cannos fully Comprehend Our
  90. chines, as the Object of their Derocion; ihe Eelves, nor bave such an adequate Concextion
  91. Acheilts normithstandine, vould here Persivade os any Substance, as persecsly 10 Master and Con-
  92. Jhem rhat ihey havonone, and ibat hethine is a quer the same. That of ihe Scepcicks (0 far
  93. Non-Tinciey meerty because they have no Senli. Truc, That there is Somethine Incomprehensible
  94. bie Idea, or Phancalm ibereos. And so may in ihe PHence os Lvery ibins, even os Body it

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