342 THE ARIAN INVITED TO ORTHODOX FAITI1. idea is full and adequate. And it is my ¿pinion, that there can scarce be any cavils framed against these representations of the Spirit of God in, scripture, but what may be also rais- ed against ,many of our human forms of speaking, concern- ing the spirit of a man, or some of his intellectual and active powers. SECT. IILAn occasional Reflection on the Glob of the Holy Spirit. As this explication of the doctrine of the blessed Spirit, seems to give a more easy and natural interpretation to most of the scriptures where he is mentioned, so it tends to aggrandize the character of God, and of his divine Spirit, and exalt him infinitely above all created power's. Perhaps, no creature has any real proper efficience belonging to it, when abstracted from that universal influence of God, which is commonly called the divine' concourse, whereby all being;' are preserved and kept its actuation, according to their several natures, that is, according to the laws appointed by the Creator. And if so then the divine Spirit may be the proper universal efficient of all created beings and of all motion whatsoever. Let us enquire into this sentiment a little further. When one body is moved by another Moving body which impels it, I think it is agreed by the latest and best philosophers, such as Mr. Locke and Sir Isaac Newton, that this is not owing to any innatepower in the impelling body, but that it is of cted according to a law of 'motion, which the sovereign will of the Creator has appointed ; so that the second body is not so properly moved by the first, as by the universal and all pervading .force of that original divine efficacious volition, that one body should thus give place, when another of sufficient bulk and motion Mt- pels it. This is yet more evident in the great law of attraction, or gravitation,' which Sir Isaac Newton, has found to be observed in the corporeal world. Ile acknowledges that there can no me- chanical reason . be given, why all bodies should gravitate to- ward a centre, or why all the parts of matter should have a }mutual tendency toward each other ; but it is the Creator's ori- ginal, and everlasting power and will, acting uniformly on all the parts of matter. It is also this original will and power of the Creator, that gave a- projectile motion to the several planetary bodies, and that this projectile motion concurring with, or rather resisting the gravitation toward their several centres, keeps the whole system Of planets in their,proper order and periodicalrevolutions. And this is not only applicable to one body moving another ; but tvllen a spirit wills to move a body, it has no innate efficient
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