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they have there made among the Natives^ Vortuguefes.Sicc ; as alfb 
what belongs to the Morals and the odd Religions of rhofe Indi- 
an HeathenSjI muft refer the Reader to the Book it felf. 
II. Antoniile Grand INSTITVflO PHILOSOPHIC, fecundum 
Principia Renati Des- Cartes ^ nova metbodn adornata ^ explzcata. 
hovi^\n\^apud]MMiyn^in Ccemuerio D,?diw\\^\6j2,tn 8\ 
THis Author hath with much induftry and clearnefs laid togc* 
therein this fmal! pocket- volume, a!i the parts of the Carte- 
fan Philofophy, to facilitate the ftiidy of the fame to fuch as 
dcfire to inftrud themfelves inif. * 
He begins with the Art of ufing Reafon arightjand infifts much 
upon this_,that we are to dcveft our {elves of the prejudices of our 
infancy,^ and to acknowledge nothing for Truth, but what we do 
clearly and diftin42:ly underitand 5 and then^that we ought to give 
or deny our affent to nothing but what exaftly aofwers to fuch a 
clear perception and underftanding of ours* 
And becaufe all our knowledge is uncertain, as long as we are 
not fure of a Beirigabfolutely perfed^ixom whomjas the Firfb Truth, 
all verities do depend $ he aflerts the ad:ual Exiftence of fuch a 
Being from the principles of Des-Cartes, 
Then fince from this ground, that there is a God , by whofe 
power all things are produc€d,and that cannot deceive hs, we arc 
certain that we cannot err in the things which we clearly and di- 
ftinftly knoWj he infers, that, feeing we have clear and diftiodt 
ideas of Corporeal th!ngs,of which we are not theCaufes,and which 
even occur often to us againft our wiH> that, I fay, thofc ideas 
proceed from things without us,that do truly and adtually exiftin 
the world , for elfe, faith he^ if God fhould immediatly iroprefs 
f ]eh conceptions upon our Minds,or caufe them to proceed from 
an objedtjn which there were to be found nothing of Extenfmn^ 
Motion^ Figure, &c. God could by no means be freed from de- 
caption* Whence it follows^according to our Aurhor^that there 
is a Subfianee extended in lengthy breadth^ and depth^ calla Body^ the 
Kow, in thefe Ph\ficks he excludeth a!! Suhflayitiat Forms from 
Eociy, and afcribeth all the Corporeal Eff^ds of Nature to the 
vario'JS Si7,e, Ftgnre, Soituation, Motion and Reft of Bodies* 
And admitting, that a Material Subttance coufifts m the faid 
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