CHAP. II.
What is meant by demonstrating there is a God, and that the mind of man, unlesse he do violence to his facul••ies, will fully ••ssent or dissent from that which notwithstanding may have a bare possibility of being otherwise.
BUt when I speak of demonstrating there is a God, I would not be suspected of so much vanity and o∣stentation as to be thought I mean to bring no Arguments, but such as are so convictive, that a mans understanding shall be forced to confesse that is is impossible to be other∣wise then I have concluded. For for mine own part I am pro••e to believe, that there is nothing at all to be so demon∣strated. For it is possible that Mathematicall evidence it self, may be but a constant undiscoverable delusion, which our nature is necessarily and perpetually obnoxious unto, and that either fatally or fortuitously there has been in the world time out of mind such a Being as we call Man, whose essential property it is to be then most of all mistaken, when he conceives a thing most evidently true. And why