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turd Sp&cles, and other Organs of Senfe an
Motion ; and the Tnftinirt of 13rutes and InfcitsF
can be the effe& of nothing elk than the I\, ih
dam and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent,
who being in all Plates, is more able by
his %vill tQ move the Isodies v.:ithin his bound.,
lefs uniform Senforium, and thereby to form
and reform the Parts of the Univerk, than JIT~
are by our Will to move the Parts of our ~11:~
Bodies. And yet we are not to confider the
IV odd as the Body of God, or the ievcral Parts
thereof, .as the Parts of God. He is an nni-.
fbrm Being,. void of Organs, Members or PartsI,
and they are his Creatures inbordinate to him,
and fubfervient to his Wi!l ; and he is no more
the Soul of them, than the Soul of a Nan is the
soul of the Species of Thiilgs carried through
the Organs of Sede into the place of its Sen-
&ion, where it perceives them by me;;ns of its
immediate Prefencc, without the Intcrvcntiorn
of any third thing. The Organs of Senfe are
not for enabling the So,ul to perceive the Spcties
of Things in its Senforinm, but 01d\r for
coIlveping them thither; and God 1~ no i~cril
of fuch Organs, he being every where lxefent
to theThings themfelvcs. AIld fiwe Space is
divifible jz j,vjiiimz, and i\v’latter is not neceg
farily in all places, it may he nlfo allom’d that
C&J is able to create Particles of l’v\/latter of fee-
Vera1 Sizes alld Figures, and in feveral proportions
to Space, and perhaps of different 13x6
ties and H;‘orces, and thereby to vary the LOWS
of Nature, and in&e Worlds of feveral forts in
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