Howe - B3999 R4 H68 1702

Part II. The Living Templé. able to convince the moll pertinacious Pagan, &c. And it is taken from the Idea of God, compar'd with that Di-- vine Saying, Exod. 3. 14. 1 am that I am. Whereupon, what he fays, will, to any one who attentively reads thew his Defign, vii,. at once to expofe Re- ligion, and hide hirfelf. And fo cloth his Coliufìon fuffici- ently appear in making the Soul .Pie lofphically Mortal, and Chriflianly Im- mortal, pag. 7o, &c. But if the Phi- lofopher perifh forever, what will be- come of the Chriflian ? This Author alto finds great Fault with the In fiances ufually given to ex- emplify the common Definition of Mang.' Subftance, [That is, a Being fubfjling dint, Pag. by it felt:, or in it f lf] becaufe he ' 12. thought them not agreeable enough to his Matter Spincfa's Notion of the Vnity, and Identity of all Subflance, and confequently of the improducibi- lity of any. And he fancies them to contradict themfelves, that, while they call the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, this or that Tree, or Stone, Subflances, they yet admit them to be produced by another. For how can it be, frith, he, that they fhould be in, or by rhem- D 2 fel yes, 1

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