inaSlivity of Matter, &c. 8 i

nothing but matter in the Universe (b). Forif there were nothing in the Universe but asubstance which resists all change of its pre-sent state of rest or motion, or to which avis inertia iseffential, itis certain no changeof state could ever have been effected, norwould there have been a substance in natureto which aclive power could have belonged.And universally, as every other kind of a-theisrn asserts matter to be endued with cer-tain original powers , which may supply theabsence of a Deity, or of immaterial Being,in the world; this fort of reasoning concludesequally against them all, by {hewing the im-possibility of all their hypotheses at once: andthis is obvious to any person, without fartherarguing. So that to begin with examining

(b) In the 46th chapter of his Leviathan he fays,The world (I mean not the earthly one, that denomi-nates the lovers of it worldly men, but the universe, thatis the whole mass of all things that are) is corporeal,that is to fay body ; and hath the dimensions of magni-tude, namely, length, breadth, and depth : also everypart of body is likewise body, and hath the like dimen-sions; and consequently every part of the Universe isbody, and that which is not body is no part of the Uni-verse. And because the Universe is all, that which i$no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere, f*.

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