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pre fed , and Jlill continues to impress motionupon it. The first thing that appears in hisnature, as he is thus discovered, is his imma-teriality, being the powerful Creator andMover of matter; for it is already evident,and shall still be made more plain, that sucha powerless, dead substance, as matter, mustowe its existence to something else. Spinoza’sabsurd assertion, That every thing in the worldwas God, or that nothing but God could ex-ist {a), included in it this plain contradic-tion of making the effect the fame thing withthe cause, and confounding the most oppostenatures in the universe. For it is absolutelyimpossible that the same being [God] shouldbe both material and immaterial; or void ofall power, as matter is, and at once the ori-gin of all power, as an immaterial Beingmust be. But particularly it appears fromwhat hath been said, how contradictoryHobbes ’s opinion is, who asserts that there is

(a) Prater Deum nulla dart , neque concipi potejl sub'Jlantia. Ethic. Part. I. prop. 14. Una subsantia no*poteji product ab alia subjlantia. Ibid. prop. 8. Ad nd'turam subjlantia pertinet exijlere. Ibid. prop. 7. R eSnulh alia modo, neque alto ordine a Deo product potucruntyquam produlfa Jwtt. prop. 33.

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