our modern Mathematicians, and is a Corner-ſtone or Ground-work of their Speculations.
VII. All theſe Points, I ſay, are ſuppoſed and believed by certain rigorous Exactors of Evidence in Religion, Men who pretend to believe no further than they can ſee. That Men, who have been converſant only about clear Points, ſhould with difficulty admit obſcure ones might not ſeem altogether unaccountable. But he who can digeſt a ſecond or third Fluxion, a ſecond or third Difference, need not, methinks, be ſqueamiſh about any Point in Divinity. There is a natural Preſumption that Mens Faculties are made alike. It is on this Suppoſition that they attempt to argue and convince one another. What, therefore, ſhall appear evidently impoſſible and repugnant to one, may be preſumed the ſame to another. But with what appearance of Reaſon ſhall any Man preſume to ſay, that Myſteries may not be Objects of Faith, at the ſame time that he himſelf admits ſuch obſcure Myſteries to be the Object of Science?
