. Of the principles and duties of natural religion : two books . have any conception of histrue Original, how it could be poflible, thata Young Infant fhould be bred in his Mo-thers Womb, where it Ihould continuefor fo many Months inclofed in a bag ofWater, without breathing 5 yet upon Expe-rience thefe things would appear to him un-queftionable, and of Natural Evidence. From what hath been faid, it will follow,that fuch things are evident by NaturalLight-, which Men of a mature Age,in the ordinary ufe of their Faculties, withthe common help of mutual Society, mayknow and be fufficiently allur
. Of the principles and duties of natural religion : two books . have any conception of histrue Original, how it could be poflible, thata Young Infant fhould be bred in his Mo-thers Womb, where it Ihould continuefor fo many Months inclofed in a bag ofWater, without breathing 5 yet upon Expe-rience thefe things would appear to him un-queftionable, and of Natural Evidence. From what hath been faid, it will follow,that fuch things are evident by NaturalLight-, which Men of a mature Age,in the ordinary ufe of their Faculties, withthe common help of mutual Society, mayknow and be fufficiently allured of, with-out the help of any fpecial Revelation. Andwhen it is faid that the Notion of God isnatural to theSoul, the meaning of it there is fuch a Faculty in the Soul E 3 of J 4 Of the principles\, Sec, Lib. L of Man, whereby, upon the ufe of Reafon,he can form within himfelf a fettled notionof fuch a firft and fupreme Being, as is en-dowed with all pofTible perfedion. Whichis all I fhall fay as to this firft fhall be briefer in the CHAP. chap. J. of Natural (^11^10?!, ^j CHAP. V. II. Arg. From the Original of theWorld. Nothing can be more evident, than thatthis vifible Frame, which we call theWorld, was either from all Eternity, or elfethat it had a Beginning : And if it had aBeginning, this muft be either from Chanceor from fome wife Agent. Now if fromclear Principles of Reafon, it can be rendredmore credible, that the World had a Begin-ning, and that from fome wife Agent: Thismay be another Argument to this purpofe. I cannot here omit the mention of a ^r-Difcourfe, wherein this Subjedhath been fo^^** ^fully treated of, that I fhali need to fay thelefs of it, having little that is material to addto what is there delivered. In the dilcufling of this, I Ihall purpofelyomit the mention of thofc Arguments whichrelate to Infinity, as being not fo eafily in-telligible, and therefore more apt to puzzleand amujfe, than to convince. Let it be fu
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