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A30485 Second remarks upon An essay concerning humane understanding in a letter address'd to the author, being a vindication of the first remarks against the answer of Mr. Lock, at the end of his reply to the Lord Bishop of Worcester. Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. 1697 (1697) Wing B5946; ESTC R20232 13,975 33

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reads the State of their Principles with their Consequences especially as to Moral things that he might make a sure Judgment of them I am sensible that when Men have a different Set of Ideas and First Principles they may be easily mistaken in judging of one anothers Meaning or in drawing Consequences from one anothers Principles But that methinks ought to give no offence but rather to be gently rectified without ill Language by the Authors themselves who best know their own Mind And as I find that you say you are often at a loss in understanding the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Remarks upon some of your Notions so I hope you will not think it strange if I am sometimes at a loss also how to understand your Writings which we may reasonably presume are not more clear either as to Sense or Words You tell me in your Answer That I pretend to have writ that Letter to be inform'd And so I did but withal gave you some Reasons for my Doubts Will you not allow a Learner to desire his Master to explain himself when he does not understand his Dictates and also to propose Objections when his Teacher's Sense seems to him contrary to Reason We are taught by your self not to give up our Assent to the Authority of others without good Evidence and you make it one great Cause of Errour To relie blindly upon the Opinions of others I hope therefore I have obey'd your Precepts in this as I am ready to do in all other things that are reasonable I can truly and sincerly say That I do not write out of any Spirit of Opposition nor for any By-ends whatsoever but for my own Instruction and Satisfaction and for the Discovery of Truth in those great Points When I doubt of your Sense if you please to direct me and when I make Objections if you please to answer them I have my Design and desire onely that the Merits of the Cause may be spoken to on either hand without course Language and Personal Reflexions which I think is your own Advice In your Conclusion you tell me again of my Fault in not setting my Name to my Paper in these hard Words To conclude Were there nothing else in it I should not think it fit to trouble my self about the Questions of a Man which he himself does not think wortby owning To which I answer Tho' in some Cases I think the Sense is more impartially consider'd without Favour or Prejudice when the Author is unknown yet if that will satisfie you Do you put your Name to all the Books and Pamphlets you have writ and I will put my Name to this how unusual soever it is to put a Name to such small Papers SIR Your Humble Servant FINIS Answ. p. 3. Pag. 4. Remarks p. 5 Pag. 4. Pag. 5. Pag. 5 6. Pag. 74 75. Effay p. 44. Pag. 68 fect 10. P. 44 45. Lib. 2. c. 27. Pag. 180. sect 6. Pag. 272. P. 17. sect 5 6. P. 192. sect 5. P. 86. sect 19. P. 197. sect 2. De fin Bon. Mal. c. 18 Pag. 2. Essay p. 405. sect 17. * No bodies Notions I think are the better or truer for ill-manners joined with them and I conclude your Lordship who so well knows the different Cast of Mens Heads and of the Opinions that possess them will not think it ill Manners in any one if his Notions differ from your Lordship's and that he owns that Difference and explains the Grounds of it as well as be can I have always thought that Truth and Knowledge by the ill and over-eager Management of Controversies lose a great deal of the Advantages they might receive from the Variety of Conceptions there is in Mens Understandings Could the Heats and Passions and ill Language be left out of them they would afford great Improvements to those who could separate them from By-interests and Personal Prejudices Answer to the Bishop of Worcester p. 222.