364 Matt er mt eternal and uncaufi^'

be an effects that we could have no notionit at all without the idea of the act imp^^whereby it was produced. No man con ^have the idea of a substance situable,ble, or extendible, which had not an e _ jJome Jitnation, some figure , and a det^pextension: he cannot conceive it e* 1 .without these ■, nor produced first;, andr eC ^ing these determinations afterward. _the question that is put, " If one may n oC ^

<c gue from the existence of an“ that the pajjive Being must necestctilf“ ist, in the fame manner as I do iP 6" place?” I answer, by no means. J jtfrom the passive nature of matter, £ „

must have been produced by an active ^ r,^iand therefore have begun to be: but an 3 ^Being doth not require a passive nat lirethe cause of it, (that is repugnant) aS ^^dead or passive substance requires an a ^ £ jjBeing to be its cause. A dead substa lice jtnot only want an active Being to act U P hsbefore the manner of its existencechanged; but to produce it at first ; in ^pscafe there is no arguing converfly* , csomething farther may be intended ^ ^objection; if any such thing be, ^