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CONTENTS.

SECT. I.

y *H A T a resistance to any change of itspresent sate is essential to matter, andinconsistent 'with any ablive power in it,

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S E C T. II.

'The consequences of the want of active powersin matter, viz. that all those es ebts common-ly ascribed to certain natural powers resid-ing in matter are immediately produced bythe power os an immaterial Being. Hencea constant and universal Providence in thematerial world, extending to the minutes:things. Hence the necestity of an immate-rial Mover in all spontaneous motions, &e.

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SECT. III.

The natural immortality of the foul shewn■ from its being a stmple or uncompounded 'substance ; what this immortality imports.

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