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Qu. 61 Whether it be not leſs exceptionable to admit Points above Reaſon than contrary to Reaſon?

Qu. 62. Whether Myſteries may not with better right be allowed of in Divine Faith, than in Humane Science?

Qu. 63. Whether ſuch Mathematicians as cry out againſt Myſteries, have ever examined their own Principles?

Qu. 64. Whether Mathematicians, who are ſo delicate in religious Points, are ſtrictly ſcrupulous in their own Science? Whether they do not ſubmit to Authority, take things upon Truſt, believe Points inconceivable? Whether they have not their Myſteries, and what is more, their Repugnancies and Contradictions?

Qu. 65. Whether it might not become Men, who are puzzled and perplexed about their own Principles, to judge warily, candidly, and modeſtly concerning other Matters?

Qu. 66. Whe-