Sec. 55.  This put him to a great deal of trouble, which made him begin to consider with himself, what were the Consequences which did follow from each of these Opinions, and that perhaps they might be both alike.  And he perceiv’d, that if he held that the World was created in Time, and existed after a total Privation, it would necessarily follow from thence, that it could not exist of it self, without the help of some Agent to produce it.  And that this Agent must needs be such an one as cannot be apprehended by our Senses; for if he should be the Object of Sense, he must:  be Body, and if Body, then a Part of the World, and consequently a Created Being; such an one, as would have stood in need of some other Cause to create him:  and if that second Creator was Body, he would depend upon a, third, and that third upon upon a fourth, and so ad infinitum, which is absurd.  Since therefore the World stands in need of an incorporeal Creator:  And since the Creator thereof is really incorporeal, ’tis impossible for us to apprehend him by any of our Senses; for we perceive nothing by the help of them, but Body, or such Accidents as adhere to Bodies:  And because he cannot be perceiv’d by the Senses, it is impossible he should be apprehended by the Imagination; for the Imagination does only represent to us the Forms of things in their absence, which we have before learn’d by our Senses.  And since he is not Body, we must not attribute to him any of the Properties of Body; the first of which is Extension, from which he is free, as also from all those Properties of Bodies which flow from it.  And seeing that he is the Maker of the World, doubtless he has the Sovereign Command over it. Shall not he know it, that created it?  He is wise, Omniscient!

Sec. 56.  On the other side, he saw that if he held the Eternity of the World, and that it always was as it now is, without any Privation before it; then it would follow, that its Motion must be Eternal too; because there could be no Rest before it, from whence it might commence its Motion.  Now all Motion necessarily requires a Mover; and this Mover must be either a Power diffus’d through the Body mov’d, or else through some other Body without it, or else a certain Power, not diffus’d or dispers’d through any Body at all.  Now every Power which passeth, or is diffus’d, through any Body, is divided or doubled.  For Instance; The Gravity in a Stone, by which it tends downwards, if you divide the Stone into two parts, is divided into two parts also; and if you add to it another like it, the Gravity is doubled.  And if it were possible to add Stones in infinitum, the Gravity would increase in infinitum too.  And if it were possible, that that Stone should grow still bigger, till it reach’d to an infinite Extension, the Weight would increase also in the same proportion; and if on the other side, a Stone should grow to a