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THE

LIGHT

O F

NATURE

PURSUE D.

BY

EDWARD SEARCH, Efq;

VOLUME II. PART II.

THEOLOGY.

Τὸ γνωσὶν τὸ Θεὸ φανερόν ἐσιν ἐν αὐτοῖς· ὁ γὰρ
Θεὸς αὐτοῖς ἐφανερωσε. Τὰ γὰρ ἄοραλα αὐτὰ
ἀπὸ κλίσεως κόσμε, τοῖς ποιήμασι νούμενα και
θορᾶται, ἥτε αἴδια αὐτῷ δύναμις καὶ θειότης.
Rom. Ch. i. 19, 20.

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THE

LIGHT OF NATURE

PURSUE D.

VOL. II. PART II.

CHA P. XX.

HYPOTHESE S.

EVERTHELESS the heart of man finds

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little fcope for contemplation without a profpect of fomething it can conceive; for imagination wants a ground more folid than meer abstraction to walk upon. Though complacence be the only thing valuable to the mind we can never obtain it without fome other perception to usher it in, nor can we be pleased without fome agreable fight or found or taste or event or reflection to please us, and when we go to frame the idea of pleasure we find ourselves unable to do it unlefs by recalling another idea of those things

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