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106 not mere Machines. Beats, according to your Aertion, cannot be animated with a piritual Soul; you will therefore, in pight of your elf, be reduc'd to this only Aertion, viz. that God has endued the Organs of Beats, who are mere Matter, with the Faculties of Senation and Perception, which you call Intinct in then. But why may not God if he pleaes, communicate to our more delicate Organs, that Faculty of feeling, perceiving, and thinking, which we call human Reaon? To whatever Side you turn, you are forc'd to acknowledge your own Ignorance, and the boundles Power of the Creator. Exclaim therefore no more againt the age; the modet Philoophy of Mr. Locke, which o far from interfering with Religion, would be of ue to demontrate the Truth of it, in cae Religion wanted any uch Support. For what Philoophy can be of a more religious Nature than that, which affirming nothing but what it conceives clearly; and concious of its own Weakness, declares that we mut always have recoure to