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is affefted wkh fuch pleafure; and to the gravitation, bent, and 

 ereatnefle, that fuch a fubjeft hath to the objed that delighteth it. 

 Now tp rove at the force and activity, wherewith a feparated fotile 

 weighetti and ftriveth to joyne it felfe, to what its nature carrieth ic 

 ucto ; let us beginne with confidcring the proportions of celerity 

 and torcibleneffe, wherewith heavic bodies move downewards, f 

 fee a pound weight in one fcale of the ballance, weigheth up the o- 

 ther empty one with great celerity. But if intothat you imagine a 

 million of pounds to be put, you may well conceive, that this great 

 exccfle, would carry up the tingle pound weight with fo much vio- 

 lence and fpee^, as would hardly afford your eye liberty to obferve 

 the velocity of the motion. Let me multiply this million of pounds 

 by the whole globe of the earth ; by the vaft exctnt of the great 

 orbe , made by the fonnes , or earthes motion about the center 

 of the world; by the incomprehcnfibility of that immenfeftore- 

 houfe of matter and of bodies, which isdefignedinlumpe by the 

 name of the Vniver (e of which we know no more, but thai it is be- 

 yond all hope of being knowne,during this mortall life.Thus when 

 I have heaped together a bulke of weight, eq'iall to this unwieldy 

 machine ; let me multiply the ftrength of its velocity, and preflfure 

 over the lead atonic imaginable in nature, as far re beyond the limits 

 of gravity, as the ingenious skill, wherewith Archimedes numbred 

 the lead graines of fand that would fill the world, can carry it : and 

 when I have thus wearied my felfe, and exhaufted the power of 

 Arithmetick, and of Algebra, I finde there is ftill a proportion be- 

 tweene chat atome and this unutterable weight : I fee it is all quan- 

 titative; it is all finite; and all this exccfTe vaniffoth to nothing, 

 and becommeth inviiible (like twinkling fta r res, at the r ifing of the 

 much brighter funne ) as foone as the lowed and the meaneft fub- 

 ftance fhineth out of that orbe, where they refide that (come divii:- 

 bility 5 a nd are out of the reach of quantity and matter. How vehe- 

 ment then mu(l the activity and energy be, wherewith fo puiflant 

 a fubftance (hooteth it felfe to its di fired objet > and when it enjoy- 

 eth it, how violent tnuft theexfafic and tranfport be, wherewith ic 

 is delighted > How is itpofliblethen for my narrow hart, to frame 

 an apprehenfion of the infinite exctfle of thy pleafure (my foule) o- 

 ver all the pleafurc this limited world can afford, which is allniea- 

 fured by fuch petty proportions ? How Ihould I ftampc a figure of 

 thy irnmenfe greacnefle. into mv materiall imagination ? Here I 



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