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fhown, in the chapter concerning the nature of inductive reafon- 

 ing, that, though we have no fcientifical knowledge of caufe and 

 efFe(St, which it is impoflible, by the nature of things, that we 

 fhould have, yet every man who beheves in God, and, by confe- 

 quence, in an eftablilhed fyftem and order of things in the uni- 

 verie, has fufficient ground to beHeve that the events which conftantly 

 precede^ are the caufe of thofe which con^d^niXy folloiv. 



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