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That the divinity may possibly be endowed with attributes, which we have never seen exerted; may be governed by principles of action, which we cannot discover to be satisfied: All this will freely be allowed. But still this is mere possibility and hypothesis. We never can have reason to infer any attributes, or any principles of action in him, but so far as we know them to have been exerted or satisfied. (p.103)

That the divinity may possibly be endowed with attributes, which we have never seen exerted; may be governed by principles of action, which we cannot discover to be satisfied: All this will freely be allowed. But still this is mere possibility and hypothesis. We never can have reason to infer any attributes, or any principles of action in him, but so far as we know them to have been exerted or satisfied. (p.103)

"...no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it just foundation for any such system of religion." (p.92)

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. (p.60)