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transactions, can be drawne out of them j for I canfindeno 

 poflible meines to linkethem together : a vaft and impenetrable 

 Ocean, lyethbetweenethedifcoverics we have made on each 

 fide of its fhores, which f orbiddeth all commerce between them; 

 at theleaft, on the darke bodies fide, which hath not wings to 

 foare into the region of Intellcttuall light. By thofe principles, 

 we have traced out thecourfeand progreffe of all operations be- 

 longing to fcnfe ; and how beafts doe or may performe all their 

 actions, even to their moft refined and fubtileft operations :bat 

 beyond them, we have not been able to carry thefe grounds, nor 

 they us. Let him then take the pains to (hew us,by what figures, 

 by whatfirft qualities, by what inixtion of rare and denfe parts, 

 an univerfall apprehenfion, an evident judgement, a legitimate 

 confequence is made and fo of the like ; as, of a mans determi- 

 nation of himfelfe to anfwer pertinently any queftion j of his 

 choofing this way before that, &c. Which if he can doe (as I 

 am fure he cannot) I (hall allow it to be reafon, and not obftina- 

 cie, that worketh in his mind, and carryeth him agaiaft our do- 

 ctrine : but if he cannot, and that there is no apparance nor pof- 

 fibility Cas indeed there is not) that thefe actions can be effected 

 by the ordering of materiall parts, and yet he will be ftillunfa- 

 tisfyed, without being able to tell why, (for he will be unwil- 

 ling to acknowledge, that thefe abftractcd fpeculations, dee not 

 finke into him, and that nothing can convince him, but what his 

 fenfes may be judges of, and that he may handle, and turneon 

 every fide like a brick or a tilej and will be ftill importune with 

 cavillous fcruples, and wild doubts, that in truth, and at the bot- 

 tome doe fignifie nothing, we will leave him to meditate at 

 his leifure upon what we have faid ; whiles we proceed on to 

 what folio weth out of this great principle, Th/tt our f attic isin- 



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