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, after having premised that the Word
Person
properly signifies a thinking intelligent Being that has Reason and Reflection, and can consider it self as it self; concludes That it is Consciousness alone, and not an Identity of Substance, which makes this personal Identity of Sameness. Had I the same Consciousness (says that Author) that I saw the Ark and
Noah's
Flood, as that I saw an Overflowing of the
Thames
last Winter; or as that I now write; I could no more doubt that I who write this now, that saw the
Thames
overflow last Winter, and that viewed the Flood at the general Deluge, was the same