284 7 ^ 6 soul necessarily living .,

of moving our bodies from place to place.This, the foundation of which lies in theinertia , or resistance of matter, a propertythat it cannot be divested of, as it is a solidextended substance, is increased, partly bythe quantity of matter in our bodies, andpartly by their gravitation to the earth, theirplace of present habitation. Now we saw inthat second section, that even in the presentconstitution of our bodies, all that we per-form in spontaneous motion, is little morethan exerting an actof the will-, next to no-thing abstracting from that act of volition,and as to the overcoming the inactivity ofmatter; since an indefinitely small part ofthe matter that is moved, is moved by thespontaneous mover, and all the rest is movedby the immediate power and impression ofthe First Mover, Nay we fee that the wholesystem of material nature round us, and with-in us, is so curiously wrought and-contrived,and so artfully put together, that upon thelittle which the human foul doth, a long f e "ries of motion often succeeds, as if we pefformed it all, by this single act of willing ltonly: and that infinite Power is not wearied,nor exhausted, nor perplexed, by being thussubservient to our will, or really to the spon-t taneity