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coitfeyuences of the want of aElivepowers in matter , viz. that allthose effeSls commonly ascribed tocertain natural powers res ding inmatter are immediately producedby the power of an immaterial Be-ing. Hence a constant and uni-versal Providence in the materialworlds extending to the minutestthings: Hence the ?ieceffty of animmaterial Mover in all sponta-neous motions , &c.

T HE consequences of the truth esta-blished in the last section are of greatweight both in religion and. philoso-phy ; therefore I beg leave still to proceed atleisure from one of these to another, and tobe particular in deducing them. And, first,the chief consequence that offers to us fromwhat hath been said hitherto is, the necejsttyof an immaterial powerful Being , who first

made this dead substance matter yriginallfim-

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