3 7 8 Matter not eternal and uncaufi^

and this necessity must always remain:God must create matter constantly as well a snecessarily. Shall we think that he created aninfinity of it j and that (no more after thath eing possible) he is forced to annihilate ft* 1 * 6

part again, that he may answer the nece$ £ yof creating? something like this must be^Pposed on their scheme. And if, on the othand, it wereposstble he Ihould produceter in time only •, then it was possiblethat matter might not be eternal: and Jwere possible it might not be eternal, *what argument can a man ssiew that h **Lreally eternal? They who would defendeternity of matter, must at any ratethe impossibility of its being ©therw'so,that God produced it necessarily, ^"d ^deed, these men have endeavoured t0 ^plain themselves by comparisons that 1 ^they had this notion of the Deity,

" Sun, (fay they) if it had eternally C%1 &(l" would have eternally produced lig&> ...“ opaque body a smdow, or a foot<£ so the material world is an et erne f ^“ duBion , or consequence of God vvho“ ternal.” It is easy to observe here hrl

tine sun, the body, or the foot, are n ot ^ gJl t