4i 8 OljeBtom to the immateriality

there may be no impediment, though notnecessary as efficient causes: and if the leastrequisite is wanting, or the least thing super-fluous present, though the power still re-mains, and acts (or impels the dead parts)as at other times, the machine no more tellsthe hour, minute, day ; or answers any ofthe ends it was designed for, than a pictureof it drawn on paper would. In short, it isas dead, as if there were no power present,or acting. Let me here," by the by, reflecton the adorable power and goodness of God.How much more exquisite is the mechanismof our bodies! how infinitely more compli"ca ted ! and how much more brittle are thematerials! And yet we live! nay enjoy health,strength, Vc. unless by our own faults. Now,from this liableness in the machine to fall in-to fainting-fits, and to have all signs of lifesuspended in it, (continuing still to use theanalogical terms) or from the recovering ofit again ; no body would fay, that these me-chanical motions, while continued, were con-stantly productive of, either the mechanicalpower of the engine, or yet, of a certainother power, which rises to the performingwonders quite' above mechanism. I need not