3S4 ObjeBions to the immateriality

pearance, implying reason, and the disorder* ^

of that reason ; or reason affected after a cer- v

tain and particular manner; now, since it is r

certain that the power itself must belong to <j

an immaterial being, it is very conceivable t]

that the disorder, or the particular affection, n

or the disturbance in the exercise of that k

power, may proceed from an external cause, p

either material, or immaterial. This I think ft

is a categorical answer to this boasted dish' st

culty. Let us here resume a little the eX' p.

ample of the clock, N° 2 o. of the last section; ni

and it is not only reasonable to argue tvith j n

the Sceptic from that example, by which h e (f

seems to insult over his adversaries; but h;

markable that he may be confuted from ll ' er

suppose it should strike twelve, while th e th

hand points at six, and that all the moti°n s

in it, how many soever they be, should coP'

tradicteach other, instead of agreeing; eveO* - th

body would allow that these contradict 01 ^

motions as much stand in need of a pov^ er

to produce them, as if they agreed. Thef e * 1

is indeed no difference in either cafe, as t0 j t °

the motions themselves : and as to their j as ^ a]i(

ring, we would refer that to some accident# c 0l

impediment, or any thing rather than 1 c V

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