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trary to itself. The tendency in matter to per-severe in the same state of rest or motion isnothing but the will of the Creator, who pre-serves all things in their existence, and mannerof existences' c ): nor can we have recourse toanother cause for the preservation of immate-rial substance in its existence and manner ofexistence; taking manner of existence in a lar-ger fense, (because being active it can changethe state of its cogitation {d). Therefore, asI said, these tendencies are originally to beascribed to the will of God, and it is absurd to

(o) Desmant jam Philosophi continuati mot us ex quires*tausam , alia quippe agnoscenda ejl nulla prater primartillam, qua non modo motum, fed res omnes in, ejfe fuo Con-fervas ; Deumfcil. Opt. Max. nec alia ratione perseveredmot us, quam qua continuatur carports alicujus figura , co-lor, aut alies qxecvis ijliufmodi affeStiomm, ques sempereeedem permanerent, nijivis aliqua externa cas turbavertt «Jntroduc. ad Ver. Physic. Le£l. ix.

(d) The first existence of matter, and every changein the manner of its existence, requires an immaterialCause. And though every change of the manner of theexistence of spirit, doth not immediately proceed fromthe power of God, being active itself in changing thestate of its cogitation; yet the having received this acti-vity shews it no less dependent on the will of the Crea-tor, than if it were preserved in one continued state ofinactivity,

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