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 as an example. He has in several books treated of and vindicated the opinion of seeing all things in God; and yet so acute a person as Mr., after having read them all, declares, that he less comprehends his notion from his last book than ever. Which plainly shows a defect in F. to write upon a subject he understood not, and therefore could not make others understand.

You see, I bespeak no favor in the question before me, and take the whole fault to myself, if I do not write clearly to you on it, and prove what I propose.

And that I may inform you, in what I think clear to myself, I will begin with explaining the sense of the Question.

Man is a necessary Agent, if all his actions are so determined by the causes