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Meafure Time is — It muft: be by Motion — This Motion mufl be perpetual, and it muft 

 revolve into itfelf, and begin where it left off — The Motion of the Celeftial Bodies of 

 this Kind — Definition of Time — Confequences of this Definition — Body, Motion, 

 Number, muft all join to make Time — How far Time participates of the Nature of 

 Body — How Timt applies to Mind fuch as ours — Moments not Time — nor any part of 

 Time — Common Divifion of Time into prefcnt^ paftj zn(] future — Nature of the prf- 

 fent — properly fpeaking, has no exijlence — Time altogether of a moft fhadowy Na- 

 ture — How Timt is applied to Motion — Difference betwixt Time and Eternity no 



Difference, according to the Syftem of the Materiallfts — If the Univerfe be not Eter- 

 nal, and is to have an End, then Time muft have had a beginning, and will have an 

 End — Difficulty of Conceiving a Being whofe Duration is not meafured by Time^— 

 yet it is neceffary fo to conceive Divinity — What Pktimis fays upon this Subjedb 



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CHAP. 11. 



space taken in two Senfes, a larger and ftrlder — The Inquiry here concerning Space 



in the ftrider Senfc, that is, roid of Body — Different Opinions concerning Space . 



confidered by fome as different from Body and Mind, and as a kind of Rival to 

 Deity — Space confidered upon the Suppofition of nothing exifting — Then Space is 

 nothing but the mere Capability of receiving Body — In what Senfe Space can be faid 

 to have the three Dimenfions — Space confidered llkewife upon the Suppofition of Deity 

 exifting from all Eternity, but not the Material World — Upon that Suppofition, 

 Hkewife, Space nothing but mere Potentiality — Laftly^ Space^ confidered upon the 

 Suppofition of the Exiftence of the Material World — Upon that Suppofition, it has 

 no exiftence but in relation of Body, ahd fhat in three refpefts — but abfolutely, in 

 itfelf, a mere non-entity — Place is nothing but Space filled with Body — From thence 

 arifes a (hort Definition of SpacCy viz. that it is Place^ §^v>«^«, or in Capacity p. 369 



CHAP. III. 



Leibnitz's Definition of Space — and of T'zW— erroneous as to both, but altogether er- 

 roneous as to Space — Abluid Confequence of thcfe errors — Dr Clark's Opinion con* 

 cerning Space — The Confequence of the Dodlor's Opinion is, that Space is an effen- 



■. \\A Property of the Divine Nature — Uiiable to anfwer Mr Leibnitz's Objedion to 

 hib Notion oi Space — The Ground of the Doclor's Error— fhe Ground of the Error 

 of both p. 3^^ 



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