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natter is not eternal and uncaused, northe eternal efi'eB of an eternal cause.

I 1* hath been shewn in the first and se-<c °nd sections of Vol. I. what kind of a? W' nCe matter * s: 11 appears to be a sluggish,te r ] l y e > I knt p’, not only not endued, but ut-ti<J x> Capable of being endued with any ac-W P 0%Ve r. The nature of it consists in be-sifl J tc *ly extended, or so extended as to re--^Jence resfiance is fundamental in its: an( I hence again arises an impossibl-es 0 ^ its effecting what it resists, viz. anyc e ; § e of its present state. If we should con-li t y lr once placed in any part of the immen-Co n space, (though We could not eventl^ eive it placed at first in that part ratherd ete an °ther, without some externalcause toty e JV'i^e this particular location ;) if, I fay,ould conceive it once thus placed, wepl ace aft er that conceive it to remain in thatOr f to a h eternity; to continue in that Jhapeand with the same relativesituation.Or Va y ar s -> without any possibility of change

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