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brought together again, and united by that power in nature which 

 makes things of the fame kind unite together and cohere. 



Thus, I think, it is proved, that even in the material world there 

 is nothing loft, though every thing be changed more or lefs; fo that 

 the fyftem is continued amidft all the changes which particular 

 things in it undergo. In the world of fpirits there muft be likewife 

 changes; for nothing, we are told, is unchangeable except God ; 

 and accordingly we know that not only men fell but angels. But 

 this happened by caufcs which were neceflary ; fo that it could not 

 have happened otherwife, unlefs the general laws, by which the 

 fyftem is governed, had been, as fliall be afterwards fhown, altered. 



Having faid thus much of Prefervation as eflential to the Deity, I 

 now proceed to fpeak, as I propofcd, of the animal nature in parti- 

 cular. 



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