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piepms ? whichbeing affi med and roaiotained by him^he is 
folvingthe Objedions of thofe that bold %he piviji^ilitfoi 
body in infinitum. 
la the third, concerning Motion.h^ feems to have well ccm- 
fidcred the doftrine of Elafticity or Spriogincfs , touching 
which he affirms, that though it be not Motion, yet 'tis 
the Beginning zuA as 'twere th^Seed of ix^ and made pur- 
pofcly for it ^ and that^ as Motion begins in a €onatus or JSe^r- 
tngy^Q it ends in the fame : AUedging further, that as a ft irr'd 
body is never at reft or in paufe at all, but always cither ftir- 
ring or bearing Cwhich bearing is no more reft than ftirringj) 
To he cannot be charged with the uncouthnefs of a Bodies re- 
covering Motion of it felf, after the dying or breaking off of 
that which moved it 5 Gnce that cannot be faid to be recover 
red whichwas never loft, and Motion is not loft, but only 
lockt up in the EUter or Bearing 5 forafmuch as the bearina is 
the ^Fe//;;^r/«gof Motion,asMotion is theOJ^j^r^>f of Bearing: 
As the darting power in the Hand or Soul is notMotion, but 
theSpriog of all that Velocity that is given to things projeded j 
which Spring of motion or Eiaterjas well as the Motion flow- 
ing from thence, he conceives is alfo thrown off together with 
the projeaile, it feeming to him impoffible, to make over 
Motion that may be lafting without a Spring of fwiftnefs, and 
as impoffiblc to continue a fwiftnefs without the renewing 
of fuch a Spring. Whence he takes occafion to explain Ve^ 
getative motion, and the Nature of Begetting ones like, 
which to him is nothing elfe but the Making over of Springs \ 
as Seed^n hh opinionjs nothing but aClufter of bubles clofcly 
engaged togetherjor a Bottom of Springs clofely girt or knit 
together, which being loofend when fown, by the bedewing 
of the mould foaking in between its crevices, thcfpringsdo 
fwel!,and the hollows are made wider,&c. 
The/i?»r^/&Qu«ftion heanfwers, that the World had be- 
g!oniDg,and that beginning the world fooncr and fooner, 
would never make itEcernal .Here he takes occafion to evince, 
that the World is fomewhat befidcs Cod , .refuting thofe that 
holdjthc World might have been from Eternity .Which done, 
he maintains,that a Time may be faftn'd on,beyond which the 
world (hall not hold. To the iwolafi Quseftions he anfwers, 
1 hat the Plurality of Worlds as much as the Earliocfs of them 
ftands 
