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But yet this proposition, how certain soever, that men ought to fear and obey God, proves not to me the existence of men in the world, but will be true of all such creatures, whenever they do exist: which certainty of such general propositions depends on the agreement or disagreement to be discovered in those abstract ideas. $ 14. In the former case, our know- Andgeneml ledge is the consequence of the existence prupu~tions of things producing ideas in our minds concerning by our senses : in the latter, knowledge is abstract the consequence of the ideas (be they ideas.
Used in discourses, equally argumentative and controversial, there is this more t o be complained of, which is the worst sort of trifling, and which sets us yet farther from the certainty of knowledge we hope to attain by them, or find in them ; viz. that most writers are so far from instructing us in the nature and knowledge of things, that they use their words loosely and uncertainly, and do not, by using them constantly and steadily in the same significations, make plain and clear deductions of words one from another, and make their discourses coherent and clear (how little soever they were instructive) ; which were not difficult t o do, did they not find it convenient to shelter their ignorance or obstinacy under the obscurity and perplexeclness of their terms : to which, perhaps, inadvertency and ill custom do in many men much contribute.
Culties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness : since we have sense, perception, and reason, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as we carry ourselves about us. Nor can we justly complain of our ignorance in this great point, since he has so plentifully provided us with the means to discover and know him, so far as is necessary to the end of our being, and the ereat concernment of our happiness. But though this be the most obvious truth that reason discovers; and though its evidence be (if P mistake not) equal to mathematical certainty: yet it requires thought and attention, and the mind must apply itself to a regular deduction of it from some part of our intuitive knowledge, or else we shall be as uncertain and ignorant of this as of other propositions, which are in themselves capable of clear demonstration.