3 8 2 Matter not eternal and uncaused*

really a£ls upon them', so that the action whichwe think we discover in them, is his irnwC"diate action. ‘This action discovering i" .several ways in the several bodies of theverse , and always uniformly and regularly* lStermed necejjity in them, as in a stone fall 1 ^downward; and called, with respect to 1uniform constancy of it, by Philosophers,law of their nature. And it is from these 111 ^stances only, that we get a notion of phyfi canecessity; which I wish might be attended 10 'But men getting the first notion of itand then extending it over the supr erne $ e [himself proceeded contradictorily, imag* n1 ,'there was still some superior nature aboV eSupreme: which was to make a cbiffl^L ^contradictory creature of the fancy, theypreme, or rather supremefi Cause (p-)

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exposes a chimerical necessity, and Ihews the ab ur •pur prejudice, tho’ contrary to the Author’ s defii n - ^r.'T is a j&ue to the Destinies the Dejliniei theinfe ^ 3( ,ge