37 ° ObjeSHons to the immateriality

the use the Sceptic makes of it: after it hathserved his end in such absurdities; infinitePower is but a word, like other things, andthe infinitely powerful Being nothing. lastly,let us observe, that it is perfectly absurd to,fay infinite Power may superadd a propertyto a substance incapable of receiving it, (N°14, 15, and 26. Sect. I.) that is, incapableof being the subject of it. The substancebeing first divisible, and then the parts of itstill remaining dead; the property can haveno subject of inhesion but the junction ofdead parts to dead parts (f). But, as hathbeen said before, that the junction, puttingtogether, or cohesion of dead particles, it"self a property, should be the subject of an"other property, is an absurdity Mr. Lock e

(f) The neceflity of what is here aflerted will app earthus. Suppose the thinking compounds or whole , dividedinto two halves (as all matter is divisible); if both the^think, divide them again, Isc. If all the partsthink , all matter is a thinking substance; and whattiplicity of consciousness must there be in a material s° u ^'Or if we stop at any division, the last thinking whole, re 'solved by division into unthinking parts, had nothing h utthe junction^ or adding together of these parts, to be th esupport of the fuperadded property, of thought, real 011 ’

which, notwithstanding the word Omnipotence &

sorted, is as contradictory, as any other way of aster*’ 111 ®the materiality of thinking Beings. bilnfd 1