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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER III
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The Romanists say it is best for men, and so suitable to the goodness of God, that there should be an infallible judge of controversies on earth; and therefore there is one.

And I, by the same reason, say it is better for men that every man himself should be infallible.

I leave them to consider, whether, by the force of this argument, they shall think that every man IS so.

I think it a very good argument to say,--the infinitely wise God hath made it so; and therefore it is best.

But it seems to me a little too much confidence of our own wisdom to say,--'I think it best; and therefore God hath made it so.' And in the matter in hand, it will be in vain to argue from such a topic, that God hath done so, when certain experience shows us that he hath not.


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