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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. -

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  1. Phe COnFeNLS.
  2. I AWS and EAEC, a5 10 ATatter, not meer Multiply Cintities withont Decessitr. The
  3. Coxiration in ihe Ninc of God bnt an Sont endued mith a Plastick Nature, the
  4. Fnerperick and PRectual Principle in it. Chies Pormatrix of its oron Body the con-
  5. And ihis Plastick Nacure, ihe Prue and tribution ofother Causes not excluded. 166
  6. 23. That, besides the Plasticke in Par-
  7. Proper l’ace ot NTALCF, or of ihC CorpO-
  8. reat WVorid. IVBat Maxicke is, and that ticular Animals, Formine them as so ma-
  9. Nature mbich acteth FacalIY, acteth also ny Licle Words, there is a General
  10. Plasticte or Artisicial Nature in thC
  11. Maxically and Sympachecically. P. 161
  12. 19. That Nacure, thoueh it bethe Di-
  13. Whole Corporeal Dniverse, which likevise,
  14. accordine 10 AristorlC, is either a PAIE
  15. VinC AEC, Or PacC, vet for al that, i5 nei-
  16. iher a G0d nor Coddels, but a Lom anc and L. Orver Porver of a Conscions Mun
  17. dane Soul, or else somethine dependine
  18. Imperseet Creature, it actine Arcisicialy
  19. and Racionalr, ne otberroise than Com-
  20. thereon.
  21. 167
  22. 24. That no less accordine 1o Aristocle,
  23. pounded Forms of Letters, when Printine
  24. Coherent Philosophick Sense; nor for than Plato and SOCrateS, Our selves par-
  25. Fnds, ihan a Sum or Flatehet in ihe hands take os Lile from the Lile ofthe llniverle,
  26. as vell as ve do of Feat and Cold front
  27. os a stilsul Mechanick. The Plasticle
  28. and Veretacire Lile of Nature, IhC Lom- ihC Eleat and Cold of the D niverse. From
  29. est of all Lives, and Luferiour 10 the Sen(i- mbence il appears, that aristorle also held
  30. cire. A Hipher Providence, 1han that ihe Worids Animation, which is further
  31. os ihe Plasticte Nacure, sovermine ihe Ondeniably proved. An Ansiver 10 Tvo
  32. ibic. Ihe most considerable Dlaces in that Phi-
  33. 20. Nocrwithstandine rehieh. forasmuch losopher objected to the contrary. Lhat A-
  34. Corporeal WV orid it sels.
  35. as ihe Plastick Nature is a Lite, it must ristorles l’irst Immoreable MOveI mas
  36. necds be lneorporeal. One and ihe self no Soul, but a Perfect Intellect abAract
  37. sarse thine, havine in il an entire Modet from Macter, which he supposed to move
  38. and Plat form of ihe WVhole, aud actine onely as a l’inal Cause, or as BCins L. OV-
  39. ed; and besides this, a Muncane Soul
  40. cannot be a Body. And thoneh Aristorle and Plasticle Nature 10 movethe Hleavens
  41. upon severat Distant parts os Malter,
  42. bimsels do no rmbere declare ihis Nature PFicienely. Neither Aristorles NatIC
  43. 10 be cither Corporeal or Incorporeal, non Mundane Soul rhe Supreme Deuly.
  44. llorvever, thoueh there be no such Mun-
  45. Crtrich he neither elearty doth concernine
  46. the Racional SOuI) and bis Follovers
  47. commonty talie it 1o be Corporeal, vet,
  48. dane Soul, as both Plato and Ariltorle
  49. conceived, vet may there be notmithstand-
  50. ine, a Plasticle or Artificial Nature de
  51. Philosophy, must il necds be otterroise. pendine upon a Flieher Incellectual Prin-
  52. 168
  53. accordine 1othe Cenmine Principles oF That
  54. 165 ciple.
  55. 25. No Impossibility of other Partieu-
  56. 21. The Plastick Nacure beine Incor
  57. Porcal ns esther be a LOiver Porrer lar Placticles; and thoueh it be not rea-
  58. rodeed in Souls, mhich are also Conscions, sonable 10 tbinte every Plant, Herb and
  59. Sensicive or Rational; or else a distinet D’ile os Grass, to have a Plastiele or Vese-
  60. Substancial Lise by it Setf, and Interi- cacire Soul of ils oron, nor 1b0 F. Aeth 10
  61. our Soul. That ihe Placonicts assirm be an Animal, vet may there possibly be
  62. Both; vith Aristortes acrecable Deter- one Plasticle Artificial Nacure presidine
  63. MinatiOn; TBat NAEurC is CIthEF PANE OF over ihC Whole TerraqueOUS OlObC, bY
  64. ibid. which Pecetables may be severally orsa-
  65. 22. The Plasticte Nacure as 10 ihe Bo- nized and Framed, and all chines per-
  66. a Soul, or noc wichoue SouI.
  67. dies of Aimals, a PAIE, or LOrVeE POW- Sormed, mhich transcend the P’over of
  68. e of their respective Souls. That ihe Forcuitons Mechani(.
  69. 26. Our Second Cndertakeins, Which
  70. Archeus in AnimalS; 10 make which a vas 1o Shom, Nom erosty those Acheilts
  71. Phaenomena prove a Plasticke NaEuTC Or
  72. distinet ihine from ihe Soul, moulat be 10 (Cmho actinomledee this Arciticiat P laltiete
  73. Nature.

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