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102 Productions. Bihop Stillingfleet got the Reputation of a calm and unprejudic'd Divine becaue he did not expresly make ue of injurious Terms in his Dipute with Mr. Locke. That Divine entred the Lits againt him, but was defeated; for he argued as a Schoolman, and Locke as a Philoopher, who was perfectly acquainted with the trong as well as the weak Side of the human Mind, and who fought with Weapons whoe Temper he knew. If I might preume to give my Opinion on o delicate a Subject after Mr. Locke, I would ay, that Men have long diputed on the Nature and the Immortality of the Soul. With regard to its Immortality, 'tis impoible to give a Demontration of it, ince its Nature is till the Subject of Controvery; which however mut be thoroughly undertood, before a Peron can he [sic] able to determine whether it be immortal or not. Human Reaon is o little able, merely by its own Strength, to demontrate the Immortality of the oul, that 'twas abolutely neceary Religion hould reveal it to us. 'Tis of Advantage