Part IL The Living Temple. 6 i their prefent, true Caufes, import more Perfection, than Stupidity, Infenfblenefs, andApathy; and if fo, tho' pain, and grief cannot formaiy agree to the moft perfect Being of God, to whom their Caufes cannot agree ; that theLife, and Percipiency do eminently agree to him, by which he can apprehend an Injury, tho' not a real Hurt, (which he can, therefore only, not apprehend, not be- caufe the perceptive principle is wanting, but the object) and by the power of im- parting whereof, he is able to make a Creature capable of pain, and grief, where the Objects [hall (as they may defervedly) occur, and meet the per- ceptive Principle; and that thepower of malting fuch a Creature, is a greater Per- fection, than an Impotency of doing it. Which Perfection, therefore, he could not, contftently with himfelf, deny to God, having acknowledgedhim a Be- ing infinitely perfect, or comprehenfive ofall Perfetion. Nor (2.) Doth he affert necelfary increase .Matter , confiflently withhis ownRea- fonings for thepoffibility of a Vacuum, Pug. iv) where he takes it for granted, that God can [aneantir une petitepartie de la ma- tiere.
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