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by their immediate prcf&’ to that Subilance ?
l’fand thei‘e things being rightly difpatch’d, does
it 1101: appear from Ph3xxxncnn that there is a.
Beillg incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipw
fel% who in inGnite Space, as it were in his Senfory,
ices the things themfelves intimately, and
~h~o~g-hly perceives them, and comprehends
fhcnl whtilly by their immediate prel‘ence to
hinxiklf: Of which things the Images only carried
through the Organs of Senfe into oui little
Scnfol-iums, are theie feen and beheld by that
which in us’ perceives and thinks. And the’
every true Step made in this Philolbphy brings
US rkot immediately to. the Knowledge of the
firfi Caufe2 yet it brings us nearer to it, and
011 that account is to be highly valued.
qcd. 29. a Are not the Rays of Light very
fnx4. Bodies emitted from fllining S&fiances?
For fwh Bodies wil) pat3 through uniform Me-
diunx in right Lines without bending into the
Shadrsw , which is the Nature of the Rays of
Light. They will alfo be capable of feveral
Properties, and .b,e able to conl‘ervq their PPOperties
unchanged in paiPing through feveral
Pvkdiullx9 which is another Condition of the
Rays of Light. Pellucid Subitances a& upon
the R.ays of Eight at a diflance in refra&ing, refIeAing
and it@&ing them, and the Rays mum&y
agitate t& PGr.ts of thofe Subftances at a
diiiance for heating them ; and this AAion and
&e-;a&& at: a diijance, very much refembles an
attra&ive. F0rc.e between Bodies. . If Refi-a&ion
$e perform’d, by ,AttraAion of the Rays,. the.
si11gs of ~IJcidcnce 1yit be to tee Sines !?mef~a(!?igq