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demonstration to sober men. Besides,no man can be certain of the existence 0other men, upon this scheme; and si° ceis said that God excites in us all the i^ eaS ’which we fancy are excited by bodies; ^must fay that, when we think we are tetoP^by other men, to commit an unjust ° r ^,moral action, God immediately temp £S ^and this, not only by exciting the l< ^ e&S u Sthe persuasives in the temptation (of \words and actions, to wit, which are n oi pi ,

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tempted to; for, as hath been said, ta>away the existence of their bodies, there‘ skind of evidence left for the existence otfouls of men, who by the abuse of their y 1dom might tempt us. They who all o'dto be a Deceiver as to the first, can

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scruple of supposing him to impose on u ^the last. I might mention the insiuen^this new restnement on the lives and p raC ,^ 5of men. Though the obliquity of acti onsr j

from the will; he who thinks theft, ms

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or adultery , nothing real beyond bareand that for ought he knows, he injur^ ^body , will be surely under less restraint