andshewn inconclusive. 289

End, that this substance should exist;^ y doth It not exist? If otherwise; unhymakelS ^ e heve a thing exists , whose real existence^ u ld have answered no good and wise end ?ari any supposition lay God under a ne-uty 0 f constantly deceiving his creatures ?" his rational creatures too ? Will not suchapposition contradict his reason and hisrut h? This will have all the force of a just:

6 an< ^ w hhom, atl d the relation between the objetlthe faculty, and all designed only to misguide and^ ' Vc us, as if these were to be the orgafis for com-^ Illc 3-ting the action of external objects, when in truthj- Cse is no such thing. This in the language of the pre-^ scepticism is, That God excites in us (or rather leaves^ ts) investigate) certain wonderful ideas [of eyes, andfor the reception of other ideas, [men, houses , ani-c Gf<r.] which we are incapable of receiving by the^ l ” ar y manner, if these first ideas are any way difor-And all the art and experience men have acquir-ed *° procure themselves ease and relief from such dif-jf ers > is only at the bottom helping an idea that is di-^hred-, a mere juggle (as I said ) played upon us by thehin!* 1 ° r our nature. Let me suppose that the Deityh^Elf poflefled us with a notion, that our bodies were

^ °f China-ware or Glass, (yd caput habere fiShle,e Jso cucurbitas , Vel ex vitro atnflatos, as Cartes

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^ ^ then ask ’ that would be a greater imposture,the present, on our Author’s scheme ?

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