§ 11. Secondly, next to these are men ^ „ . ,
•I* J . ^j« X • X 2. Received

whose understandings^ are cast mto a hypotheses.
mould, and fashioned just to the size^of a
Ireceived hypothesis. The difference between these
land the former is, that tiiey will admit of matter
lof feet, and agree with dissenters in that ; but differ
pnly in assigning of reasons, and explaining the man-
ger of operatbn. These are not at that open defiance
with their senses with the former : they can endure to
hearken to their information a little more patiently;
but will by no means admit of their reports in the
explanation of things ; nor be prevailed on by pro-



halHHties, which would convince them that things are
not brought about just after the same manner that
they have decreed within themselves that they are.
Wmild it not be an insufferable thing for a learned
WofiMa8or, and that which his scarlet would blush at,
%o have his authority of forty years jstanding, wrought
Jout of hard-rock Greek and Latin, with no small ex-
; J^enae of time and candle, and confirmed by general
itradijtion and a revexend beard, in an instant over*



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