A TREATISE 



the cffeft wanting. And this is the meaning of Ariftotles Axiome . 

 of the truth and evidence whereof in this fenfe, if any man Ihould 

 make the leaft doubt, it were cade to evince it : as thus, if nothing be 

 wanting but the effec^ and yet the effect doth not immediatly fol- 

 low, it mu(t needs be, that it cannot follow at all; forifitcan,and 

 doth not, then fomething more muft bee done to make it follow: 

 which is againft the fuppofition, that nothing was wanting but the 

 cffefl: , for that which it is to be done 9 was wanting. To fay, ic 

 will follow wichoutany change, is fenfelefle : for if it follow with- 

 out change, if followeth out of this, which is already put: but 

 if it doe follow out of this which is precifely put, then it followeth, 

 againft the fuppofition, which was.thatitdidnot follow, although 

 this were put. 



a This then being evident, let usapply ittoourpurpole; and lee 



;hc effcfts of. us put three or more things, namely A. B. C. and D : whereof 

 li fuch agents^ione can worke otherwife, then in a inftant or indivifibly : and I 

 i woike in- f a y j t fat whatfoever thefe foure things are able to doe, without re- 

 :antaneoufly , ^^ Q A ^ Ql ^ T t fr w g k e fcies them, is compleady done in the firft 

 i^h^fn-fUn- inftant of their being put : and if they remaine for all eternity, 

 ant that the without communication or refpcft to any other thing, there (hall 

 gems are . never be any innovation in any of them, or any further working a* 

 ut ? mong them but they will al waies remaine immutable, in the fame 



ftate they were in,at the very firft inftant of their being put:for what 

 foever A- can doe, in the firft inftant, is in that firft inftant actually 

 done; becaufe he worketh iudivifibly : and whit can be done pre- 

 cifely by A, and by his aftion joyned to B. doth precifely follow 

 out of A. andhisaflion, and out of -B, and hisacVion,ifB. have a- 

 nyaftion independent of A. and becaufe all thefe are in the fame 

 inftant, whatfoever followeth precifely out of thefe, and out of any 

 thing eHe that is in the fame inftant, and that worketh indivifibly as 

 they doe - v is neceffarily done in that very inftant ; but all the acti- 

 ons of C.and D. and of whatfoever by refleftion from them may be 

 done by A. and B. being all of them indivifible,and.following pre- 

 cifely out of fome of the forenamed aftions ; they doe follow ouC 

 of things being in this inftant: and becaufe they are indivifible, 

 they may be in this inftant : and therefore.all is done in this inftant. 

 Now, fuppf Gng all to be e done that can bee done by them in this 

 inftant ; and that nothing can follow from them, unlcfle it follow 

 precifely out of what is in this inftant ; and that it is all indivifible; 



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