68 The LivingTemple. Part IÌ. And here, indeed, is the Source of his Error, his reducing infinite Power to the meafures offinite; an infolent Prefuming to circumfcribe Qmnipotency, and making thatfrrnply impoffìble even to Almightinefs it felf, which is only fo to createdAgents. And to this pur- pofe, I find fome Reafonings in Sex- tus Empiricus, who tells us how the Scepticks attempt to prove (befides their difputing againft the other three forts of Caufatìon) that (à /.w ,4) an incorporeal thing cannot be (Via aw eta 70.-) the caufe of any thingcorporeal 9 arguing (and (lightly enough) from the common Methods of fubordinate Agents, to the Operations of the f - preamCaufe. Nor is it apprehenfible, how one can find a medium ; or while they make mattter Independent, how not to make God Dependent. And when the Monfieur we are con- cern'd with, took a friendly Notice of Hermogenes's Content with him up- on this Subjeîi, he might as well have been at the pains to confider fomezrhat of what Tertullian wrote againfE him, that hereby, in fame refpea, Cod is made inferiour and frrbject to Matter, when without it he could not have made
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