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moved; yet neither affects the other: God suf-fers nothing from the motion of bodies ; bodiesfind no resistance from the omnipresence of God,

It is allowed by all, that the Supreme God existsnecessarily, and by the same necessity he existsalways and every where. Hence also he isall similar, all eye, all ear, all brain, all asm, allpower to perceive, to understand, and to act;but in a manner not at all human, in a mannerpot at all corporeal, in a manner utterly un-Jaiown to us. As a blind man has no idea ofcolours, so have we no idea of the manner bywhich the all-wise God perceives and under-stands all things. He is utterly void of all bodyand bodily figure, and can therefore neither beseen, nor heard, nor touched; nor ought he tqbe worshipped under the representation of anycorporeal thing. We have ideas of his attri-butes, but what the real substance of any thingis, we know not. In bodies we fee only theirfigures and colours, we hear only the sounds,we touch only their outward surfaces, we smellonly the odours, and taste the favours, but theirinward substances are not to be known, eitherby our senses, or by any reflex act of our minds;much less, then, have we any idea of the sub-stance of God. We know him only by his pro?perries and attributes, by his most wife and ex-cellent contrivances of things, and by final causes;we admire him fpr his perfections, but we reve-rence