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the eternity os matter upon, ii. 328, 2. The absurditiesconsequent on supposing it eternal and uncaused, (whichis the first hypothesis) ii. 332, 3.

Matter, 11. If it had no cause of existence, it must be sejf-existent, and if self-existent, it must exist necessarily, andbe independent on any thing else for its existence, ii. 334,4, d, ibid. Necessarily existent it cannot be, because itsvarious and different manners of existence, are inconsistentwith necessity of existence, ii. 339, 3. Sec Belo-w. Anobjection answered, where it is proved, that the mannerof necessary existence is itself necessary, ii. 344, 6, 7.

——— 12. Not eternal and uncaused, proved from its passi-vity, and its inseparable characteristics, which plainly de-monstrate it to be an effect, ii, 348, 8, 9, notes, ib. Anobjection against the argument, from passivity, answered,ii. 359, 10. The same argument concluded in sew words,ii, 365, 11, g, ibid. To object against the above reason-ing, that matter might be extended and figured eternally,a contradiction, ii, 367, 12.

- ■ 13. Cannot be the eternal effect of an eternal cause,

(which is the second hypothesis) because though the agentis eternal, yet it does not follow, that any particular act isso, ii, 368, s3. To fay, that matter is eternal, is to fay,that a thing which had a beginning, may want a begin-ning, ii. 370, 14, h. ibid.

- 14. Not eternal, as a sister substance to the Deity,according to the nation of some Platonists, ii. 372, 15.Nor, according to other Platonists, an eternal effectproceeding from the necessity of the nature of an eternalcause, and as a consequence of it, ii. 376, 16. The con-tradictions implied in this physical necessity, ii. 380, 17,

0, p, ibid. Neither can a moral necessity be alledged formatter’s being created eternally: so that, on the whole,an. eternal effect, will be an eternal contradiction, ii. 383,18, r, ibid.

— - . I J. The objection, that nothing from nothing can

be produced, answered, ii. 39 °> * 9 * zo « notes > ibid. Thatmaterial substance exists in the world. See Berkley.

Mechanics, a standing theorem in them, i. 33, n.

Mechanism, what we ought to understand properly by it, ii.23, 7. In the human body, not the cause of spontaneousmotion. See Mot. Spont. and Mech.

Memory, by impressions unnecessary in a separate state, L399. Why its feat is first affected in steep, i, 403/13,¥ st 4 This