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« a man, a brute animal, a monster, Idc. successively,

«- you see it represented. How can you disprove t« parent existence; or shew it not to be real, an

« you are imposed upon in sleep?-By thetest llT1 ^

of your senses perhaps; since you neither hear

« these things when you awake ?-1 answer,

is ridiculous in you: you are inconsistent with / g“ self; you make opposite reasons conclude th e (“ thing; you have quite thrown aside the testi^o ^<c your senses, when you conclude against that te jf" ny, that the material world doth not really eilt J \ ^“ sense can prove any thing, your whole schenW lS ^“ absurdity.” Thus these men cannot provea drt^^le a dream on their own principles: The reason lS ’suppose all a dream antecedent to any proof, and ^ ^use of that supposition as a proof; as was argued in th® , gginning of the Section. This comes from casting 0testimony of sense. There is no laying aside the m eof certainty which God hath appointed, and finding ^consistent succedaneum in the place of them. Wefrom one absurdity to another, till at length we are . ^amidst the inextricable mazes of error and contra® ^And from all this it appears, that to allow the existsof the material world possible, and yet deny its ^istence, is dt least as difficult as the method V-taken to deny it; he had not another possible mew 0answer his purpose, but to pretend it could not exist- ^Some other objections have been made, butwith that candor, strength and accuracy as the f° r ^however, I sliall mention them. One is, " ^

“ existence of material objects may be called in <?>e