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of separate spirits, and that they are constant/in company with him, (for I am aptthis is true, whatever we believe) img^able to be alone in the dark, or in aby himself, without fear. There is no trU jcourage, but what is built upon a ratiosfoundation. And to be convinced that a ^ing of infinite peffieSlion rules over all; aIJ 'to have nothing, (Jr nothing beyond the c ° asequences of human infirmities, to fear f s0him, is this foundation. Men were forM^credulous and easy perhaps: now they are afectedly nice, with the air of more philosop*^and knowledge: but our Moderns forget $he, who believes that dead matter can P 1 ^duce the effects of life and reason, is adred times more credulous than thethorough-paced Believer that ever exists'

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