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Rh Aertion was, by more Divines than one, look'd upon as a candalous Declaration that the Soul is material and mortal. Some Englihmen, devout after their Way, ounded an Alarm. The Supertitious are the ame in Society as Cowards in an Army; they themelves are eiz'd with a panic Fear, and communicate it to others. 'Twas loudly exclaim'd, that Mr. Locke intended to detroy Religion; nevertheles, Religion had nothing to do in the Affair, it being a Quetion purely Philoophical, altogether independent on Faith and Revelation. Mr. Locke's Opponents needed but to examine, calmly and impartially, whether the declaring that Matter can think, implies a Contradiction; and whether God is able to communicate Thought to Matter. But Divines are too apt to begin their Declarations with aying, that God is offended when People differ from them in Opinion; in which they too much reemble the bad Poets, who us'd to declare publickly that Boileau pake irreverently of Lewis the Fourteenth, becaue he ridicul'd their tupid Rh