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Essay B. 2. ch 27. n. 3. n. 6. n. 9. n. 11. n. 16. n. 18. n. 26. Letter 2. p. 96. n. 25. Essay E. 4. ch 15. Sect. 1. Sect. 4. John 5.28 29. 2 Cor. 5.10 1 Cor. 15.16 17. 6. 4. John 20.25 1 Cor. 15.20 23. 35. 36 37 38. Sect. 4. Sect. 6. 42. 43. 44. 53 5â— Essay B. 2. c. 1. Sect. 5. Vindication of the Trinity p. 252. c. P. 260. Letter 1. p. 165. P. 216 Answer to Letter 1 p. 103. Letter 2. p. 109. P. 100. Answer to Letter 1. p. 107. P. 103. Letter 2. p. 112. Letter 1. p. 27. Essay B. 4. c. 6. Sect. 1. Letter 2. p. 113. P. 109. P. 109. P. 110. P. 111. P. 112. Letter 1. p. 32. Essay l. 2. ch 27. Sect. 26. Letter 1. p. 216. Essay l. 2. ch 27. Sect. 9. Essay B. 4. ch 18. Sect. 5. Evangel Medici Art 14. p. 170. Ch. 18. Sect. 10. Sect. 8. Censur Philos. Cartes c. 8. Sect. 3. n. 4. Philosophia Scripturae Interpres c. 5. n. 56. c. 8. p. 58. p. 60. p. 63. p. 65 79. From p. 63. to p. 73. p. 87. p. 88. p. 171 172. Essay B. 2. ch 13. Sect. 2. Sect. 12. Sect. 14. Princip p. 11. n. 16. Essay l. 2. ch 13. Sect. 12. B. 4. ch 4. Sect. 1. Sect. 2 Sect. 4 Sect. 5. Sect. 11. Sect. 12. Des Cartes Epist. â— 1. Ep. 87 88. p. â—17 p. 118. p. 120. p. 119. p. 121. Arist. Metaph l. 5. c. 4. P. Rami Schol. Metaph l. 9. c. 4. Physic. Ausc. l. 2. c. 1. Plut. de Plac. Phil. l. 1. c. 1. c. 3. Letter II. p. 119. Fr. Patrit Discuss Peripat T. II. l. 2. p. 207. Nat Quaest. l. 2. c. 45. De benef l. 4. c. 7 8. De Cons. ad Helv. c. 8. Cic. de Nat. l. 2. Plato in Phileb Sext. Empir l. 8. c. 2. p. 324. Anton. l. 6. sect 14. l. 10. Sect. 2. Damasc. Dial. c. 32. Chrysost. Hom. 22. in Gen. Theod. in Gen. Qu. 2. Basil. in Hex Or. 1. Gal. 4.8 Mr. Boyle of the Notion of Nature p. 27. P. 35. Discourse of the Trinity p. 25. P. 124. Ibid. Book 4 ch 7. Sect. â—â— Sect. 4. Book 4. ch 7. Sect. 17. Solid Philos. asserted Preface Sect. 16. Reflex 19. p. 378. Book 4. ch 9. Sect. 3. Book 4. ch 7. Sect. 4. Book 4 ch 7. Sect. 16. Sect. 17. Sect. 18. Book 3. ch 6. Sect. 26. Sect. 17 Aristot. Metaph l. 5. Answer to the first Lett. p. 32. Iambl in Nicom p. 5. Porph vit Pythag. Metaphys l. 7. c. 15 16. l. 12 c. 4 5. Arrian l. 1. c. 22. l. 3. c 26. Simplic in Epict c. 33. Plut. de Ei Delph Simplic in Epict. c. 58. Essay B. 4. ch 12. Sect. 14. Book 4. ch 2. Sect. 15. Sext. Empiric advers Mathem l. 7. Essay B. 2. ch 4. Sect. 5. Sect. 6. Book II. ch 8. Sect. 7. B. IV. ch 2. Sect. 8. Sect. 12. B. IV. ch 3. Sect. 18. Ch. 7. Sect. 10. Sect. 9. Sect. 10. Book 3. ch 10. Sect. 15. Book 2. ch 23. Sect. 24. Sect. 25. Book 2. ch 23. Sect. 24. Ch. 23. Sect. 31. Book 3. ch 4. Sect. 8. Sect. 9. Book 2. ch 14. Sect. 2. Sect. 32. Sect. 4. Book 3. ch 4. Sect. 10. Book 4. ch 7. Sect. 12. Book 4. ch 2. Sect. 7. Essay B. 2. ch 13. Sect. 22. Joh. Bapt. Morini Dissert de Atomis vacuo p. 14. Bernier Favilla Ridiculi Muris p. 99. Sect. 2. Ch. 17. Sect. â—â— Sect. 2. Essay B. 4. ch 2. Sect. 3. Sect. 7 8. Aristot. Metaph l. 4. c. 4. Sect. 3. Sect. 7. Arist. de Part. Anim. l. 1. c. 1. â—â— Gen. Aâ—â—â—â— l. 3. c. 10. De Meteor l. 1. c. 7. Moral Magn. l. 1. c. 1. Eudem l 1. c. 6. Ethic ad Nicom l. 1. c. 1 7. l. 2. c. 2. Itaque Argumenti Conclusio quae est Graecè 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ità definitur Ratio quae ex rebus perceptis ad id quod non percipiebatur adducit Cicero in Lucullo c. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato in Phaedro V. Dialect Ciceron Adam Buâ—sii l. 6. c. 10. P. 127. P. 131 132.134.138 c. P. 154. P. 144. P. 131. P. 132. P. 133. B. II. ch 11. Sect. 13. p. 114. p. 121. p. 135. Answ to Lett. l. p. 110. p. 137. p. 138. p. 140. p. 141. p. 144. p. 146. p. 147. p. 149. P. 152. P. 149. Essay B. 2. ch 27. Sect. 1. P. 155. P. 156. P. 159. P. 57. 59. 84. 85. 57. 84 85. 17â— 171.
THE Bishop of Worcester's ANSWER TO Mr. Locke's Second Letter Wherein his NOTION of IDEAS Is prov'd to be Inconsistent with it self And with the ARTICLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH LONDON Printed by I. H. for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCVIII THE Bishop of Worcester's ANSWER TO Mr. Locke's Second Letter c. SIR I Was not a little surpriz'd at the length of your Second Letter considering the shortness of the Answer contained in it But it put me in mind of the Springs of Modená mention'd by Ramazzini which rise up with such a plenty of Water upon opening a Passage that the Undertaker is afraid of being overwhelm'd by it I see how dangerous it is to give occasion to a Person of such a fruitfull Invention to write for Letters become Books and small Books will soon rise to great Volumes if no way be found to give a Check to such an Ebullition of Thoughts as some Men find within themselves I was apt to think the best way were to let Nature spend it self and although those who write out of their own Thoughts do it with as much Ease and Pleasure as a Spider spins his Web yet the World soon grows weary of Controversies especially when they are about Personal Matters Which made me wonder that one who understands the World so well should spend above fifty Pages of a Letter in renewing and enlarging a Complaint wholly concerning himself Suppose I had born a little too hard upon you in joyning your Words and anothers Intentions together had it not been an easie and effectual way of clearing your self to have declared to the World that you owned the Doctrine of the Trinity as it hath been Received in the Christian Church and is by ours in the Creeds and Articles of Religion This had stopt the Mouths of the Clamorous and had removed the Suspicions of the Doubtfull and would have given full Satisfaction to all reasonable Men. But when you so carefully avoid doing this all other Arts and Evasions do but leave the Matter more suspicious among the most Intelligent and Impartial Readers This I mention not that you need be afraid of the Inquisition or that I intend to charge you with Heresie in denying the Trinity but my present Design is to shew That your Mind is so intangled and set fast by your Notion of Ideas that you know not what to make of the Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation because you can have no Idea of One Nature and three Persons nor of two Natures and one Person as will fully appear afterwards And therefore out of regard to Publick Service in order to the preventing a growing Mischief I shall endeavour to lay open the ill Consequences of your Way of Ideas with respect to the Articles of the Christian Faith But I shall wave all unnecessary Repetitions and come immediately to the Matter of your Complaint as it is renewed in this Second Letter which I shall briefly answer before I proceed to that which I chiefly design Your Complaint you say was That you were brought into a Controversie wherein you had never meddled nor knew how you came to be concerned in I told you It was because the Person who opposed the Mysteries of Christianity went upon your Grounds and made use of your Words although I declared withall that they were used to other purposes than you intended them and I confess'd that the reason why I quoted your Words so much was because I found your Notion as to Certainty by Ideas was the main Foundation on which the Author of Christianity not Mysterious went and that he had nothing that look'd like Reason if that Principle were removed which made me so much endeavour to shew that it would not hold and so I supposed the reason why I so often mention'd your Words was no longer a Riddle to you These Passages you set down in your Second Letter but you say all this seems to you to do nothing towards the clearing of this matter Whether it doth or not I am content to leave it to any indifferent Reader and there it must rest at last although you should write Volumes about it But for what cause do you continue so unsatisfied You tell us It is that the Author mentioned went upon this Ground That clear and distinct Ideas are necessary to Certainty but that is not your Notion as to Certainty by Ideas which is That Certainty consists in the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of Ideas such as we have whether they be in all their Parts perfectly clear and distinct or no And you say that you have no Notions of Certainty more than this one This is no more than what you had said before in your former Letter and I took particular notice of it and gave three several Answers to it which I shall here lay together and defend because you seem to think I had not answered it 1. That those who offer at clear and distinct Ideas bid much fairer for Certainty than you do according to this Answer and speak more agreeably to your Original Grounds of Certainty For it is a very wonderfull thing in point of Reason for you to pretend to Certainty by Ideas and not allow those Ideas to be clear and distinct You say the Certainty lies in the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of Ideas How can I clearly perceive the Agreement or Disagreement of Ideas if I have not clear and distinct Ideas For how is it possible for a Man's Mind to know whether they agree or disagree if there be some parts of those Ideas we have only general and confused Ideas of And therefore I had great reason to say that if Certainty be placed in Ideas we must have clear and distinct Ideas You may as well say a Man may be certain of the Agreement and Disagreement of Colours in a confused or uncertain Light For so much as the Idea fails of Clearness and Distinctness so much it fails of that Evidence which it is necessary to judge by Where-ever there is Obscurity Confusion or Imperfection in the Ideas there must be so much Uncertainty in the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of them And to pretend to Certainty by Ideas without pretending to clear and distinct Ideas is to judge without Evidence and to determine a thing to be certainly true when we cannot know whether it be so or not for how can you be sure that your Ideas agree with the Reality of things wherein you place the Certainty of Knowledge if there be no such Ideas of those things that you can perceive their true Nature and their difference from all others For therein you will not deny that the Notion of clear and distinct Ideas consists But you say more than once or twice or ten times That I blame those who place Certainty in clear and distinct Ideas but you do it not and yet I bring
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