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To be copied
have been be sufficient" if our reason were always, Vol:1. P41
(as in our first Ancestors before his
"transgression) clear, and perfect; unruffled
"by passions, unclouded by prejudice, unimpaired
by disease, and or Intemperance". Once —
let me ask this Author, What is it to us what How then in the name of common sense came these means to be insufficient even to this first Ancestor? how came he to err with such full info <add>means of information in his hands?, — But how came after all, he to err & fall from this clear, this perfect, & this unruffled, & this unclouded, and this unimpaired State? But after all what is it to us what</add>
would have been the Case, had things been —
otherwise than they are? It is clear, that the
means are now insufficient, since, as if what our Author
himself proceeds to tell us be true: namely that every man now
"finds in his own experience, that his reason is
"corrupt, and his understanding full of ignorance,
and error". In very deed, our Author's
reason must be very corrupt, and his understanding
very full of ignorance, and error, if he
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