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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER II
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And at the latter end of his little treatise De Religione Laici, he says this of these innate principles: Adeo ut non uniuscujusvis religionis confinio arctentur quae ubique vigent veritates.

Sunt enim in ipsa mente caelitus descriptae, nullisque traditionibus, sive scriptis, sive non scriptis, obnoxiae, p.3 And Veritates nostrae catholicae, quae tanquam indubia Dei emata in foro interiori descriptae.
Thus, having given the marks of the innate principles or common notions, and asserted their being imprinted on the minds of men by the hand of God, he proceeds to set them down, and they are these:--1.

Esse aliquod supremum numen.2.Numen illud coli debere.3.Virtutem cum pietate conjunctam optimum esse rationem cultus divini.4.Resipiscendum esse a peccatis.5.Dari praemium vel paenam post hanc vitam transactam.

Though I allow these to be clear truths, and such as, if rightly explained, a rational creature can hardly avoid giving his assent to, yet I think he is far from proving them innate impressions in foro interiori descriptae.

For I must take leave to observe:-- 16.


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