. 3 5 6 Matter not eternal and uncauj^’

by nothing, is the fame absurdity as that th^ emay be an effect without a cause. This arg°ment hath not been hitherto fully consider^ >but it will appear to a reasonable man, af tes 'the exactest weighing of things, that thetion of body rather in this than thatimplies the asi of some Beins;: that theygurationoi any particle of matter require 0 ^external cause and that its determinedqti^ty of solidity, rather more or less, could shave been without a determining p r ' inCi ^ sThese are the inseparable characteristic^ ^an ejs’efii ; and let us pursue matter as f as jwe please, we can never find it divested

ing; or that it was extended thus far only, and N gther, without the determination of an external agent- ,extension ofbody then implies a particularactionbut the extension of space implies no such thing - ^

cannot truly fay space was extended , nor apply 0 -extended to both in the fame fense. I may farther ta ^ or tstice here, that they who make matter necessary ( a ^of Atheists ) should observe the great difference b ct ^ ^space and matter in point of necessity. Space hath 3 ^true marks of necessary extension, matter all the c ° n ^; ol OTo fay oncespace zvas not extended implies a contrait is impassive , without figure , location , divifi° n ->fi ^-cty, motion. Two things equally necessary, could nopposite affections in respect of that very nece 1 ^