Can anything be fairer than to put a
dispute on such an issue, and leave it to a man himself to see if
he can conceive, even in thought, what he holds to be true in
fact, and from a notional to allow it a real existence?
. It cannot be denied there is something highly
serviceable to religion in what you advance. But do you not think
it looks very like a notion entertained by some eminent moderns,
of ?
. I would gladly know that opinion: pray explain it to
me.
. They conceive that the soul, being immaterial, is
incapable of being united with material things, so as to perceive
them in themselves; but that she perceives them by her union with
the substance of God, which, being spiritual, is therefore purely
intelligible, or capable of being the immediate object of a
spirit's thought. Besides the Divine essence contains in it
perfections correspondent to each created being; and which are,
for that reason, proper to exhibit or represent them to the mind.
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