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be conduced with fuch perfect order and regularity ; nor do I 

 think it proper to fuppofe that thcfe motions flaould be immediately 

 direded by the fupreme God, any more than that they fhould be 

 immediately performed by him. 



And here we may obferve the difierence betwixt the motions of 

 the Celeftial Bodies and of thofe bodies here on earth which we 

 call inanimate, fuch as earth and ftoncs and minerals. Thefe have 

 a mind in them that moves them, which I call the elemental mind, 

 but which only moves them, having neither fenfation nor intelledt. 

 And this mind moves them only in two ways, either towards the 

 center of the earth, that is by gravitation, or in the dircdion in which 

 they are impelled by other bodies; all the other motions they perform 

 being direded by the intelligence of man. But the motions of the 

 Celeftial Bodies are much more various, changing their diredion every 

 inftant, and performed in fpaces of infinitely greater extent and com- 

 pafs- And as they are likewife performed with very much greater order 

 and regularity than the motions direded by the intelligence of man 

 here below, they muft be fuppofed to be governed by intelligences 

 very much fuperior to the human, but not immediately by God 

 himfelf. 



Thus I have explained the motions of the Celellial Bodies, 

 and have fhown, that, as motion can be produced only in two 

 ways, either by external impulfe of body, or by the internal opera- 

 tion of mind in the body which is moved, the motion of the Celef- 

 tial Bodies is produced only by mind : And in this manner I think 

 I have given the true philofophy of thefe motions, which, as our 

 Scripture tells us, declare the glory of the Lord ; and, indeed, the 

 Heavens are the moft magnificent exhibition of that glory, which 



can be imagined. 



Having 



