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skilfully resolved to make a doubt of it,ther matter actually existed. This is a vvddetermined kind of Scepticism: becauk acontradiction cannot be (hewn true, theref 01 ^they resofae (nay I may M/Jorce themsth^ ^to doubt; and if it could be ssiewn true, tn e ^won Id be no need of forcing themfcl veS ^become Sceptic ks; for it would be una vo1 ^able. All truth, as has often been

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stands or falls together. The existednecefiary and contingent Being would bethe fame level: either all Being woist^ jbut barely possible, and once nothing at ^might have existed; or all Being should ^equally necessary, and nothing thatcould ever have not existed.

VI. Matter therefore, the human soul ^.other finite spirits , are contingentthe idea of matter, v, g. was eternally c °^sistent in the Divine Mind, and is conG^f 1 ^in our minds: but the idea of any thinf ? 1 ~possible to exist, or of an impossible c ^ e Jcan never be consistent. The reason lS \inconsistency in the idea and conceptAnd this ssiews the possibility of matter sisting, whenever it ssiould please Infinite ^