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 III 



CONTENTS, 



BOOK I. 

 Of the Being of God. 



CHAP. I. 



The fubjeft of this volume. Theological ; — to contain a demonftration of the Being 

 and Attributes of God- — Dr Clarke's demonftration entirely Metaphyfical : — ^The 

 Author's demonftration to be drawn from the works of God. — The exiftence of 

 every thing to be proved only by its operations : — In this way we know our own 

 exiftence. — Des Cartes argument, drawn from the operation of his mind, not iden- 

 tical. — Our fenfations the fource of all our knowledge n this life. — By confcioufnefs 

 we are diftinguifhed from the brute. — Without the exiftence of the material world, 

 we could have no knowledge. — Abfurdity of the fcepticifm of Biiliop Berkeley and 

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The exiftence of the Intelleftual, Animal, Vegetable, and Elemental Minds, proved 

 by their operations. — Motion, the fole agent in the material world ; — nereftary to 

 treat of it at fome length.— Reference to Vol. I. of this work, for the Author's ob- 

 fervations on Ariftotle's definition of Motion. — Inquiry into the caufe of Motion. — 

 Three caufes only:— ly?. Body moving itielf, — 2i/, Other bodies moving it, — -^d. 

 Mind moving it. — The fir!>, according to Sir Ifaac Newton, produced by a vis in- 

 ftia. — Sir Ifaac's do^bine of motion, defeftive in afligning a caufe for its continua- 

 tion, but not for its beginning. — Materiaiifm, and a temiency to atheifm, the confe- 

 quence of Sir Ilaac's vis injtia, — Sir Ifaac's ignorance of Antient Philofopliy, the 

 caufe of his error. — His philofophy the fame with that of Epicurus ; — only not fo 



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