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BOOK IV. 



Of the Adjuncls of Nature, Time, Space, and Place, 



CHAP. I. 



Time, though not a Qiiife, a nccejjary AdjunB of the Material World — 

 Time, like every thing in the Material Worlds dependent upon Mo- 

 tion — not to be comprehended at once^ but to be invejiigated — Exift- 

 ence, Duration, included in the Idea ofT'im^ — Time a Meajure of no^ 

 thing but Duration — but fiot of the Duration of all Beings — only of 



fuch as are liable to Change of one Kind or another — What Kind of 

 Meafure Time is — // muf be by Motion — This Motion nmfl be perpC" 

 tuaU and it mufl revolve into itfelf and begin ivhere it left off — The 

 Motion of the Cele/Iial Bodies of this Kind — Defnition o/'Time — Con- 



fequences of this Defnition Body^ Motion^ Number^ mufl all join to 



make Time — Hoivfar Time participates of the Nature of Body — Hoii^ 

 Time applies to Mind fuch as ours — Moments wo/ Time-— «or ^2«/ 

 part o/Time — Common Divfion of Time into prefent, paft, and fn- 

 ture — Nature of the prefent — properly [peaking^ has no exi/lence-^ 

 ■ Time altogether of a moft fljadcivy Nature — Hoiv Time is applied 

 to Motion — Difference bctivixt Time ^7/2^ Eternity — no Difference^ ac- 

 cord iw^ to the Syflem of the Materiali/Is — If the U7iiverfe be 7wt eter- 

 nal^ and is to have an End^ then Time mufl have had a beginnings 

 ana ivill huve an End — Dfficulty of Conceiving a Being ivhofe Dura^ 

 tion is not meafured by Time — yet it is neceffaryfo to conceive Divi- 

 nity — V/hat Plotinusy^/j/j upon this SubjecL 



TH A T ti?ne, though not a caufc, is a neceflary adjunct or con- 

 comitant of the material world, cannot be denied ; for every 

 thing in it exifls in time 5 and the divifions of timcy viz. paft, prefent, 



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