Part IL The .Living Temple. 57 a purpof , being never pofiible to be the Matter of the World ; but def1ru- ctively, and againft the very purpofe, that fhould beferved by it. For fuck Matter being fuppofed to occupy the (pace of the formed World, mu1k ex, elude thence any other matter ofwhich it could be formed ; and make it, con- fequently, irapoffible there thould ever have been any filch. World as this ; where thefuppofztion it felfmakes it be This fee difcourfed more at Iarge Part I. C. z 6. And whereashisgreat Reafon for fuchfel-originate, independent Matter, viz. the imagined Impoffibility ofCreati- on:; or that any thing can be produc'd out of nothing (which fo far as is needful, we partly have and further (hall confider, in its proper place) doth as much oppolè the Creation of any fpiritual Being, as material. If all that hath been laid in theformer part of this Difcourfe, and by many Authors, be- fides, do fufheiently prove there are fuchfpiritual or. immaterial Beings that are created, or are not of themflees and that, of the Property of Thought, which is found belonging to them, Mater
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