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Berkeley claimed that the main design of his efforts in writing this book was to promote the consideration of God and our duty.

If we are clearly convinced of God's existence, then we will fill our hearts with awful circumspection and holy fear.

Berkeley claimed that the world exists as it does, when no one is looking at it, because it consists of ideas that are perceived by the mind of God.

If we think that the eyes of the Lord are everywhere, beholding the evil and the good, knowing our innermost thoughts, then we will realize our total dependence on Him.

In this way, we will have an incentive to be virtuous and to avoid vice.