in the Day of f udgment. 191 propofitions, as they are called, from which S E R M. we cannot withhold our affent as foon as they VIII. are intelligibly propofed. Again, what is "'"' ítridtly call'd demonftration, or plain unde- niable confequences from thefe Pelf- evident adtions, the underftanding finds itfeif irre- fiftibly determin'd to acquiefce in ; but then, high probability, when the cafe does not admit of farther proof, arifing from the na- ture of things, from analogy, from expe- rience, from teftimony, where the argu= Inents on one fide preponderate in our judg- ments agai'nft all we can difcern on the other, this alto captivates the mind, and we can't help yielding to its force. Efpecially pradlical principals are govern'd in their ope- ration this kind of evidence. It is a great part of our appointed imperfedtion in this ftate, that we have not an intuitive know- ledge of things, which yet very nearly con - cern us as the objedts of our affedtions and our purfuits. What (hall we do in this cafe ? Shall we negledt thefe things, and quit our cares about them for want of fufficient cer- tainty ? No man reafons or as fo in the affairs of common life, nay, we take up with low degrees of probability. Do men altogether decline commerce becaufe it is li- able
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