3 86 Matter not eternal and uncaused*

can assign the wife consideration which de-termined him to produce this eternal effe&*can ajjign the reason, I fay; otherwise the a -sertion must turn to supposition only and c°tt'icdture: besides, it is unphilofophical to so?"pose that moral necessity can determine a °Agent to do what we must look upon a sphysical contradiction, unless we coulda consistent idea of an eternal aSlion hav* »both beginning and end. The only moral tnsitxve which, I think, can be alledged, ^ 'God should have created the world si of0 jrternity is, that he might have commud c ^ ehappiness andperfeBion to rational cred* ^as soon as possible. But we cannot concent ^ven this, without allowing him a pd° r s^^time Or to have been pre-existent to his 0 ^effects. And if we allow him apriority’by itself cannot be less than an eternity'therwife two limited periods must

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