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Your lordship indeed here again seems t o oppose reason and ideas ; and to that I say, mere ideas are the objects of the understanding, and reason is one of the faculties of the understanding employed about them ; and that the understanding, or reason, whichever your lordship pleases to call it, makes or forms, out of the simple ones that come in by sensation and reflection, all the other ideas, whether general, relative, or complex, by abstracting, comparing, and compounding its positive simple ideas, whereof it cannot make or frame any one, but what it receives by sensation or reflection.

So that the idea of once actually nothing, has a visible connexion with nothing t o eternity, for the future ; and hence the idea of an actual being is perceived to have a necessary connexion with some actual being from eternity. And by the like way of ideas, may be perceived the actual existence of a knowing being, to have a connexion with the existence of an actual knowing being from eternity ; and the idea of a n eternal, actual, knowing being, with the idea of immateriality, by the intervention of the idea of matter, and of its actual division, divisibility, and want of p e r c e p tian, &c.

I do not say, that we can know all essences of things alike ; nor that we can attain to a perfect understanding of all that belong to them: but if we can know so much, as that there are certain beings in the world, endued with such distinct powers and properties ; what is it we complain of the want of, in order to our certainty of things ? But we do not see the bare essence of things. What is that bare essence without the powers and properties be- longing to i t ? It is that internal constitution of things, from whence those powers and properties flow.

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