Note 131 — SERMON XXXVII. PREACHED FEBRUARY 4, 1770.

Every one may observe a good many truths, which he receives at first from others, and readily assents to, as consonant to Reason, which he would have found it hard, and perhaps beyond his strength, to have discovered himself. Native and original truth is not so easily wrought out of the mine, as we, who have it delivered, ready dug and fashioned into our hands, are apt to imagine. And how often, &c. Locke’s Works, Vol. II. fol. p. 577 and 579. Lond. 1759.