inaSHvity of Matter, &c. ioi

intends the execution of these powers him-self though it is more pious, is scarce bet-ter philosophy; for besides the impossibilityof planting powers in matter inconsistentwith the nature and essence of it, a Being,who by the excellency of his nature, is ne-cessarily every where present, all-knowingand almighty, doth not want to be relievedof a part of the talk. Such philosophy suitsonly Lucian' s deities.

VI. This point of a constant impressionmade upon matter ab extra is wonderfullyplain, if we consider the motion of the earth

I hinted in my former discourse) not at all to the surfacesof bodies , (by which alone they adi one upon another) butentirely to their solid content ; cannot possibly be the resultof any motion originally impressed on matter , but must of neces-sty be caused by something which penetrates the very solidsubstance of all bodies, and continually puts forth in thema force, or power entirely different from that by whichmatter a£ts on -matter . Which is, by the way, an evidentdemonstration, not only os the world’s being made originallyby a supreme intelligent Cause ; but moreover , that it de-pends every moment on some superior Being, for the pre-servation os Its frame ; and that all the great motions init are caused by some immaterial Power, not having origi-nally impressed a certain quantity of motion upon matter,but perpetually and actually exerting itself every momentln every part os the world,

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