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fome one, or more of them n • there will be no- 

 thing wanting to an abfolute Certitude, againft 

 the not failing in Article, or Articles, &} but 



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PROP. IV. 



Concerning the 'Truth of either Oral or Written 

 Tradition, (in Whole, or in Part,) Succeflively- 

 tranfmitteA,rtnd\klfi Coattefted by fever al Suc- 



cefftons of Tranjmtt tents. 



(\) SuppoGng. the Tranfmiflion of an 'Oral 

 and Narrative to be fo performed by a Succef- 

 jlon of Single Men, or joined in Companies, as 

 that each- Tranfmiffiony after the Narrative 

 has been kept for Twenty Years, impairs the 

 Credit of it a th part ; and that confequently 

 at the Twelfth Hand, or at the end of 240 

 Years, its certainty is reduced to a Half:, and 

 there grows then an even Lay (by the Corollary 

 of the fecond Prof <c fit ion) againft.the Truth of the 

 Relation: Yet if we further fuppofe, that the 



• fame delation is Coattefted by Nine other feve 

 ralSuccejSrions,tranfmitting alike each of them } 

 the Credibility of it when they are all found to 

 agree, will (by the Corollary 4>f the fir ft Proportion) 

 be as m\ of Certainty, or above a Thoufand 

 to one v and if we fuppofe 1 a Goatteftation of j 

 Nineteen, the Credibility of it will be, as a- 



- bove Two Millions to One. 



(2) In Oral Tradition as a Single Man is 

 fubjeft to much Cafuality, fo a Company of I 

 Men cannot be fo eafily fuppos'd to join ? and I 

 therefore the Credibility of i'^ths^ or about I 



Hths, 



