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12 our modern Mathematicians, and is a Corner-tone or Ground-work of their Speculations.

VII. All thee Points, I ay, are uppoed and believed by certain rigorous Exactors of Evidence in Religion, Men who pretend to believe no further than they can ee. That Men, who have been converant only about clear Points, hould with difficulty admit obcure ones might not eem altogether unaccountable. But he who can diget a econd or third Fluxion, a econd or third Difference, need not, methinks, be queamih about any Point in Divinity. There is a natural Preumption that Mens Faculties are made alike. It is on this Suppoition that they attempt to argue and convince one another. What, therefore, hall appear evidently impoible and repugnant to one, may be preumed the ame to another. But with what appearance of Reaon hall any Man preume to ay, that Myteries may not be Objects of Faith, at the ame time that he himelf admits uch obcure Myteries to be the Object of Science? VIII. It