But to show you still more inconveniences, continued PHILO, in your Anthropomorphism, please to take a new survey of your principles.

Like effects prove like causes.

This is the experimental argument; and this, you say too, is the sole theological argument.

Now, it is certain, that the liker the effects are which are seen, and the liker the causes which are inferred, the stronger is the argument.

Every departure on either side diminishes the probability, and renders the experiment less conclusive.