andJhewn inconclusive. 261

authority to justify their maintaining

^ eiTl - Epicurus said many things well-

l m bens p'rœsertim multa, ac divinitus ipsis

nirnor talibus de Divis dare diBa fuerit -

hath left many fine things in writing:ail d yet when this was observed to Cicero , whoCondemned his philosophy, he answers, Nonfaœro q U lPl dicat , fed quid convmienter ra~tl ° n * b senientiœ face dicere .

^X. But to return. If Dean Berkeley , toCy ade the inconsistency mentioned in N° 7.

disputing with, and endeavouring to con-gee no body at all for ought he knows,fo°uld fay that God excites the ideas of mensfouls in him, (provided he will allow that^ere can be any idea, or notion, of fouls)then all his certainty for the existence of^ e ns fouls, is because God would not ex-Clte the ideas of these Beings in us, to maket* s believe they were, unless they really were.^d this would be founding his belief of^material substance, precisely upon the rea-which Dr. Clarke hath brought, to shewt* a t we cannot possibly be deceived, in con-^uding that material substance really existst'hthout the mind. That is, he cannot avoidS 3 proceed-