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Wherein I can in no wise Venture to give Sentence upon their Evidence

Little of materiall or waighty can be said on this subjecte that his rare & piercing observation has not anticipated.

And this I hope I may safely affirme without wrong either to their abilitys or good Wills.

In which I have prevented the need of Examples by many instances both of &c.

Some of which I take to be Beames, all more then Moates, fit to be removed out of their Eyes, before we can with reason resigne up our Senses to their Guidance & Mamid [space of 10 characters] Aire-beaters

No marvell that to decide such they shud want wills, having neither meanes nor occasion to actuate their abilitys; or that they shud want abilitys, having noe provocations that might stimulate their wills.

These were the Considerations that possest me when &c.

Shud I [ 'thi' deleted] grant them all to be true, it woud not follow that they were sufficinet: till it did appeare, (which I think never will, tho for the present we will suppose it.)

My former Instances I conceive have sufficiently evinc't.

Will bring you into a Circle (of Augmentation)

To border upon Impossibility.

Are delivered by such a Multitude of men, as contayne in them all the Variety of Dispositions & Affections incident to the Nature of man.

The [Unfrustrable][unclear] apetence of Truth an appropriate of humane nature.

Which for brevity sake I note onely in the margent, pronounce to me in as cleere a sence as may be, the sufficiency of Scripture & superfluity of relying upon Traditions.

The organ then of our motion to hev'n being Faith & that Faith the strongest assent of our soules; the Ground upon which it must March ought to be no lesse