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former quantity of motion, by the constantchange of direction; and as constant a repa-ration of it, by the new centripetal impulses,still generating a new projectile tendency.

VII. Let us next consider the cohesion ofmatter, and we shall find that reft demon-strates more palpably, ispofiible, the immedi-ate power of God impressed on it, than mO'ticn doth; and that upon all the parts, tosuch a minuteness as our thoughts can nevespursue, and to an universality, that admits ofno exception, but by a contradiction. A$the ways that men have attempted to accountfor this mechanically, and without interest'ing the immediate power of God, have beenno better than a supposing the thing to be ac-counted for. Thus when it is said, that th>6is the effect of some superincumbent or sus'rounding fluid, that binds, and keeps tog^ther the parts of matter; this cannot be trn eof all the parts of matter. The question re-curs, what is the cause of the cohesion of th eparts of this fluid ? Any part of it must bfconsidered as consisting of yet other parts: nthe cohesion of these parts is not accountsfor, but supposed; and then these suppost^to be the cause of the cohesion of other pas 1 ®.

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