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exiftent and Unproduc'd : For Arijlotle doth not 

 deny God to be the efficient Canfe of the World \ 

 but only aflerts, that he created it from Eter- 

 nity, making him a neceflary Caiife thereof; it 

 proceeding from him by Way of Emanation, as 

 Light from the Sun. 



This Hypofhejis, which hath fome Shew of 

 Reafon, for fomething muft necefTarily exift of 

 itfd ; and if fomething why may not all 

 Things ? This Hypothejis^ I fay, is fo clearly and 

 fully confuted by the Reverend and Learned 

 Dr. I'illotjon^ late Lord Archbifliop of Ca?iter- 

 hury^ and Primate of all England^ in his firil 

 printed Sermon ; and the Right Reverend Fa- 

 ther in God, "Jokn^ late Lord Biiliop of Chejler^ 

 in Book I. Chap. V. of his Treatife of the 

 Principles of Natural Religion^ that nothing ma- 

 terial can by me be added: To whom there- 

 fore I refer the Reader. 



T'bc Epicurean Hypothejis rejeBed. 



The fecond Hypothefu is that of the Epicii- 

 ream ^ who held, that there were two Prin- 

 ciples felf-exiftent. Firft, Epace^ or Vacuity ^ 

 Secondly, Matter^ or Body \ both of infinite 

 Duration and Extenfion. In this infinite Space, 

 or Vacuity, which hath neither Beginning, nor 

 End, nor Middle, no Limits, or Extreams, in- 

 numerable minute Bodies, into which the Mat- 

 ter was divided, call'd Atoms, becaufe by Rea- 

 fon of their perfed; Solidity they were really in- 

 divifible (for they hold no Body capable of Di- 



vifion, 



