8. If reason discovered them, that would not prove them innate.
If they mean, that by the use of reason men may
discover these principles, and that this is sufficient to prove them innate; their way of arguing will stand thus, viz.,
that whatever truths reason can certainly discover to us, and make us firmly assent to, those are all naturally
imprinted on the mind; since that universal assent, which is made the mark of them, amounts to no more but
this,--that by the use of reason we are capable to come to a certain knowledge of and assent to them; and, by this
means, there will be no difference between the maxims of the mathematicians, and theorems they deduce from
them: all must be equally allowed innate; they being all discoveries made by the use of reason, and truths that a
rational creature may certainty come to know, if he apply his thoughts rightly that way.
