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Rh Man can preume to aert, without being guilty at the ame time of the greatet Impiety, that 'tis impoible for the Creator to form Matter with Thought and Senation? Conider only, I beg you, what a Dilemma you bring yourelves into; you who confine in this Manner the Power of the Creator. Beats have the ame Organs, the ame Senations, the ame Perceptions as we; they have Memory, and combine certain Ideas. In cae it was not in the Power of God to animate Matter, and inform it with Senation, the Conequence would be, either that Beats are mere Machines, or that they have a piritual Soul.

'tis clearly evident that Beats cannot be mere Machines, which I prove thus. God has given them the very ame Organs of Senation as to us: If therefore they have no Senation, God has created a ueles Thing; now according to your own Confeion God does nothing in vain; he therefore did not create o many Organs of Senation, merely for them to be uninform'd with this Faculty; conequently Beats are not