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nate.

CHA P. III.

No innate practical principles.

SECT.

1. No moral principles fo
clear and fo generally re-
ceived as the fore-menti-
oned fpeculative maxims.
2. Faith and juftice not own-
ed as principles by all

men.

3. Obj. Though men deny
them in their practice, yet
they admit them in their
thoughts, anfwered.

4. Moral rules need a proof,
ergo, not innate.

5. Inftance in keeping com-

pacts.

6. Virtue generally approved,
not because innate, but be-
caufe profitable.

7. Men's actions convince us,

that the rule of virtue is

CHA P. IV.

Other confiderations about inmate
principles, both fpeculative and

practical.

SECT.

1. Principles not innate, un-
lefs their ideas be innate.
2, 3. Ideas, especially thofe be-
longing to principles, not
born with children.
4, 5. Identity, an idea not in-

nate.

6. Whole and part, not in-
nate ideas.

7. Idea of worfhip not in-

nate.

811. Idea of God, not innate.
12. Suitable to God's good-

nefs, that all men fhould

have an idea of him,

therefore naturally im
printed by him; an-
fwered.

13-16. Ideas of God, various in

different men.

CHAP. I.

Of ideas in general.

SECT.

1. Idea is the object of
thinking.

2. All ideas come from fenfa-

tion or reflection.

3. The objects of fenfation
one fource of ideas.
4. The operations of our
minds, the other source of
them.

5. All our ideas are of the

one or the other of thefe.
6. Obfervable in children.
7. Men are differently fur-

nished with thefe, accord-
ing to the different objects
they converfe with.

8. Ideas of reflection later,
because they need atten-
tion.

9. The foul begins to have
ideas, when it begins to
perceive.

10. The foul thinks not al-

ways; for this wants

proofs.

11. It is not always confcious
of it.

12. If a Leeping man thinks

without knowing it, the

fleeping and waking man

are two perfons.

13. Impoffible to convince
thofe that fleep without
dreaming, that they think.
14. That men dream without
remembering it, in vain
urged.

15. Upon this hypothefis, the
thoughts of a fleeping man
ought to be moft rational.
16. On this hypothefis the foul
must have ideas not de-
rived from fenfation or
reflection, of which there
is no appearance.
17. If I think when I know
it not, no body else can

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3. Nor duration by motion.
4. Why men more eafily ad-
mit infinite duration, than
infinite expanfion.

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