10. Because our ideas are often obscure or imperfect.
II. Our reason is often puzzled and at a loss because of the
obscurity, confusion, or imperfection of the ideas it is employed about; and there we are involved in difficulties
and contradictions. Thus, not having any perfect idea of the least extension of matter, nor of infinity, we are at a
loss about the divisibility of matter; but having perfect, clear, and distinct ideas of number, our reason meets with
none of those inextricable difficulties in numbers, nor finds itself involved in any contradictions about them.
Thus, we having but imperfect ideas of the operations of out minds, and of the beginning of motion, or thought
how the mind produces either of them in us, and much imperfecter yet of the operation of God, run into great
difficulties about free created agents, which reason cannot well extricate itself out of.
