2 jo Dean Berkeley ’'s schemeexami^h

Therefore you do not perceive this causeyour perceptions. Therefore this caufe °Jyour perceptions is mt at all or is hut th?fame thing with those very perceptions. H esSthe fundamental reason of this inference lS ’because we perceive nothing but our oW 11perceptions. But D. B. doth not percei yeany thing but his own perceptions, ru° lSthan other men : and if his not perceiviul?the cause of his perception, is a fufficie 11 *'ground of denying such cause, or ofing it the same thing with the very p 61 ”"ceptions themselves; then God, not bei^perceived, either is not; or is but a very p es 'ception in the mind of man: Abfit blajpmia! And thus his own argument will

terminate out of nature, any other cause

of

perception he pleases to pitch upon. He &y s ’matter being once expelled out of natut e>drags with it, &c. It is true, matter is but acontingent substance in nature; but bciuAonce expelled out of nature, it drags m° f6along with it, in his method of reasoni°$’than he is aware of: and it drags least of aour sceptical and impious notions with it, aShe pretends. To suppose it absent multiplethese notions without end.

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