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termediate time, after he lays them by 3,1night, till he takes them up again ne *morning. And after this, it is unaccoun table how.this Author could pretend.(Sect* ^ ^that he doth not deny even corporeal llJstance, in the vulgar sense ; but only lsl£ ^senseless matter; as if the Artificer thoU$ (his tools were artful , sensble matter;disappeared when he had them nothands ; or even then, were nothing but tideas of instruments in the ideas of his

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then he will have a difficulty to explain, how it c ° ^he so affected without matter, as to make this apP _doubtful. I might take notice of the variationportion of existence, ( so to speak) the rising and ftof it, upon his scheme : for instance, The Table I ^ ^on, when I do not perceive it, doth not ex ist; hut^

I sit down to write on it, it comes again into ex$ e! l jjIf another person perceives it along with me, 111111 ^have a double existence? And if three of us sit at it?its existence be three times greater, than if 11 °°^ e ^it alone ? And, lastly, if it were true that being ? ef j

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td constituted the existence of matter , and au asubstance ., the Infinite Mind perceives them witb° u£ ^termiffion; and this will constitute the continued ^istence of matter upon his own principles, I think >less he would fay that matter exists continually,

Deity perceives it, and doth not exist continuallp ath?r Beings do not perceive it, psi