Authority; two Motives which are acknowledged ſufficient to beget a rational Faith and moral Perſuaſion, but nothing higher.
XLVIII. You may poſſibly hope to evade the Force of all that hath been ſaid, and to ſcreen falſe Principles and inconſiſtent Reaſonings, by a general Pretence that theſe Objections and Remarks are Metaphyſical. But this is a vain Pretence. For the plain Senſe and Truth of what is advanced in the foregoing Remarks, I appeal to the Underſtanding of every unprejudiced intelligent Reader. To the ſame I appeal, whether the Points remarked upon are not moſt incomprehenſible Metaphyſics. And Metaphyſics not of mine, but your own. I would not be underſtood to infer, that your Notions are falſe or vain becauſe they are Metaphyſical. Nothing is either true or falſe for that Reaſon. Whether a Point be called Metaphyſical or no avails little. The Queſtion is whether it be clear or obſcure, right or wrong, well or ill-deduced?
