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ment. All this is still implied in necessary Infinity of per -section. And this at length will help us to conceive tha*-even the actions of this Being no more change the man*ner of his existence than his willing them , there beingno emotion, stress ox contention m performing the effectthat might occasion an alteration. Nor can they be con'differed as the manner of his existence; since they aretemporary, successive (as in the motions of matter) a fidnot necessary, as it must be.

We shall better conceive this, if we consider why, andAsm, our manner of existence is constantly changed; andthis particular deserves our attention. In short, this hap*pens in our bodies from motion, relative situation, and aconstant flux of parts-, from all which an immaterial Be'ingmust be free, In our minds the manner of existenceis changed from a constant succession of ideas, and the oC'curring of new objects , new desires, and the witling needeffects to be produced. This happens from the finite'ness of our minds. If we have any compass of thought,

■ knowledge, ideas, will, it must be by the successive ai'mijfion of new objects, into the mind. In an Infinite Mjn^it is quite the reverse of this: all things must be alwa}' 5and eternally in view, whence no new object of desirecsnhappen, nor therefore change in the will (which isgreat source of the change of the manner of existence irlour minds); and though the actions are performed^time, and commenfurately with the successive existence Qcreatures, yet this is without change of thoughtmotion ; orany kind of alteration: it is without casting the attentionfrom other things, to apply it to theit thing ; or castiuSthe power from other places to apply it m'that plact'This is a wonderful superiority of nature; so f ar ‘d’UV®Cur way, that we ape struck with admiration at the

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