3. _Solution._ Yet if it were _Repugnant_ to his _Goodness_ to create me so that I should be _always deceived_, it seems also _unagreeable_ to his _Goodness_ to permit me to be deceived _at any time_; Which last no one will affirme: Some there are truely who had rather deny _Gods Omnipotence_, then beleive all things _uncertain_; but there at present we may not contradict. And we will suppose all this of _God_ to be _false_; yet whether they will suppose me to become what _I_ am by Fate, by _Chance_, by a _continued chain_ of _causes_, or any other way, because to _erre_ is an _Imperfection_, by how much the less _power_ they will Assigne to the _Author_ of my _Being_, so much the more Probable it will be, that I am so _Imperfect_ as to be _alwayes deceived_. To which Arguments I know not what to answer but am forced to confess, that there is nothing of all those things which I formerly received as _Truths_, whereof at present I may not _doubt_; and this doubt shall not be grounded on inadvertency or Levity, but upon strong and Premeditated reasons; and therefore I must hereafter (if I designe to discover any truths) withdraw my assent from them no less then from _apparent falshoods_. But ’tis not sufficient to think only _Transiently_ on these things, but I must take care to _remember_ them; for dayly my old opinions returne upon me, and much against my Will almost possesse my Beleife tyed to them, as it were by a continued _use_ and _Right_ of _Familiarity_; neither shall I ever cease to _assent_ and _trust_ in them, whilst I suppose them as in themselves they really are, that is to say, _something doubtful_ (as now I have proved) yet notwithstanding _highly Probable_, which it is much more Reasonable to beleive then disbeleive. Wherefore I conceive I should not do amiss, if (with my mind bent clearly to the contrary side) I should deceive my self, and suppose them for a While altogether _false_ and _Imaginary_; till at length the Weights of prejudice being equal in each scale, no ill custome may any more Draw my Judgement from the _true Conception_ of things, for I know from hence will follow no dangerous Error, and I can’t too immoderately pamper my own Incredulity, seeing What I am about, concernes not _Practice_ but _Speculation_.