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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 12

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.90.

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  2. T2
  3. that very thine Mors it to be our in-
  4. dispentable Duty, and of Divine Autho.
  5. rier, ithout any Revelation, since ele
  6. Divine Wortemanctuip. Fluman Nature
  7. cond not subsist withour it; IF they
  8. coud prove it unpolitick or diltsuctivo
  9. to Socictr, it voud be much moie For
  10. their purpole; for Tuch a Relision musE
  11. necessarilr be talse; nothins con De à
  12. am t0 Nature, Which ol dixect Conse-
  13. quence non d destroy Nature.
  14. But if anr one thinks it beiter olta
  15. blith d on the Nature ot Cod, I have
  16. Bheun hou re come to the lnomlodse
  17. OF it in HIr. LockS Wrar, by alcribirs
  18. to hum irtraterer by its Contormity to
  19. Our Nature re perceire to De GoOd;
  20. because re sec that re cannot admit
  21. auy imperfection in the Supream. BC.
  22. inE, Without a Contradiction (Which
  23. I nali Inem in UIT. Locks Way, wrtien
  24. i core to the next Hlead) and havine
  25. by the Lffect Found out the C’ause, e
  26. nay then conclude the Nature ot G0d
  27. to be the Arch. Irpe ot ours, because
  28. re carinot suppole the most Pertect
  29. Beins can will aur thins contrarr to his
  30. ovn Nature; For il he coud, the Rule
  31. Ot that Will must De Comethins lels Per-
  32. Fect than himselE, (For erhaterer is molt
  33. Perfect is God) and therctore to will
  34. ans thins contrary to his omn. Na
  35. ture; roud be an imperfection in tum,
  36. erhich to admit in the most perteet
  37. Beins, is a Contradiction. Fhus (When

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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 12. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0024?run=74