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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 19

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  2. 3 du
  3. Oubt
  4. ere
  5. finit
  6. GO1
  7. aH
  8. eire
  9. sa
  10. C
  11. II
  12. O
  13. a Perfection. But trom what Grounds
  14. does he concluae, that Wvhracever is a
  15. pexinq
  16. Perfection must be in God: Wuil he lar,
  17. that it is a Principle imprinted On thC.
  18. Minc, rithout any Reflection; that 15,
  19. re cleariy sec that Ciod must be Pertect,
  20. re donr lnoir utiy; or Will he not
  21. rather Cay, That the vant ot anr P’er-
  22. fection, roud implu cither that he does
  23. net linor irhat is Belt, or cannot at-
  24. taim it, and theretore is inconsistent rith
  25. infinite Wisdom, and Pover: Or thatto
  26. suppolethere mar be a Beine ol Crcater
  27. Perfection than the Supream Source ot
  28. alI Beins, is a Erols Contradiction: 1
  29. beliere, il he reflects altentivelr on the
  30. Prosrels ol the Wind in the Rnoirleds
  31. ot God, he rill find Perfection i5 not
  32. tirst in our Notion ot him (a5 an in Norris
  33. senious Author has hewn) but that ha- de sin and
  34. e
  35. vins discorer d a Tirst Beins, the Sourcc Heti,im
  36. q
  37. ot a others, and irtrat atlsibutes, We
  38. rust neceslaritr alcribe to him a5 luctu
  39. re perceire char to adme ans Emper
  40. fection in hum, vould be a Contradi-
  41. ction to oux first necellarr Conceptioni
  42. oF him; wrtich MIr. Lock has establistid
  43. in his War, and tells us that troin
  44. qno
  45. chena, all tus other Atilibutes will casily
  46. be deducd.
  47. But this wrill not latistre the Remar-
  48. ker, unless Mr. Lock tellS us What 25 +0 ist. R. p. 8.
  49. f.Cs
  50. be understood b Perfetion in his n cy
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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. 19. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0031?run=74