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Indulgence, but I do [[insertion]] ^ strive [[/insertion]] not to want it; knowing that it would not easily be granted me.

9. But while [[underline]] some Astronomers or Mathematicians [[/underline]] will defend Sir [[underline]] Isaac Newton's [[/underline]] or [[underline]] their own [[/underline]] System, at any Rate, I do most humbly request that they would publish their Answer to those Discourses which I have already caused to be [[strikethrough]] made [[/strikethrough]] printed, were it only by shewing my Errors. Or at least that they be pleased to justify Sir [[underline]] Isaac Newton [[/underline]], where my Discourses shew that he has erred; beginning, if they will, with a satisfactory Answer, to this Objection chosen among many more.
 How could Sir [[underline]] Isaac Newton [[/underline]], in his 25th and 26th Propositions, make the Radius of the Orbit of the Moon Exponent of the considerable Gravity of the Moon toward the Earth; and at the same Time make the very Distance of the Moon from the Sun Exponent of the much smaller Gravity of the Moon toward the Sun? And how could he reason AT ONCE, safely, and that in different Places of his Book, upon those two most inconsistent Suppositions?

10. As I may not possibly pretend to overcome all the Difficulties, and to foresee and answer all the Questions and Objections that may occur in and against my System of the World; So it would be unjust to require those very Things from me, rather than from any other Astronomer, who can object nothing to my Demonstrations, or who may be persuaded of their Soundness. But this Discourse continues to show how I have overcome and answered many of those Objections and Difficultys. And I intend shortly to answer, as far as I am able at