certain size, and stop there, the Gravity would also increase to such a pitch, and no farther.  Now it is demonstrated, that all Body must necessarily be finite; and consequently, that Power which is in Body is finite too.  If therefore we can find any Power, which produces an Infinite Effect, ’tis plain that it is not in Body.  Now we find, that the Heav’n is mov’d about with a Perpetual Motion, without any Cessation.  Therefore if we affirm the Eternity of the World, it necessarily follows that the Power which moves it, is not in its own Body, nor in the other Exterior Body; but proceeds from something altogether abstracted from Body, and which cannot be describ’d by Corporeal Adjuncts or Properties.  Now he had learn’d from his first Contemplation of the Sublunary World, that the true Essence of Body consisted in its Form, which is its Disposition to several sorts of Motion; but that Part of its Essence which consisted in Matter was very mean, and scarce possible to be conceiv’d; therefore the Existence of the whole World consists in its Disposition to be mov’d by this Mover, who is free from Matter, and the Properties of Body; abstracted from every thing which we can either perceive by our Senses, or reach by our Imagination.  And since he is the Efficient Cause of the Motions of the Heavens, in which (notwithstanding their several kinds) there is no difference, no Confusion, no Cessation; without doubt he has a Power over it, and a perfect Knowledge of it.

Sec. 57.  Thus his Contemplation this Way, brought him to the same Conclusion it did the other Way.  So that doubting concerning the Eternity of the World, and its Existence de novo, did him no harm at all.  For it was plain to him both ways, that there was a Being, which was not Body, nor join’d to Body, nor separated from it; nor within it, nor without it; because Conjunction and Separation, and being within any thing, or without it, are all properties of Body, from which that Being is altogether abstracted.  And because all Bodies stand in need of a Form to be added to their Matter, as not being able to subsist without it, nor exist really; and the Form it self cannot exist, but by this Voluntary Agent, it appear’d to him that all things ow’d their Existence to this Agent; and that none of them could subsist, but through him:  and consequently, that he was the Cause, and they the Effects, (whether they were newly created after a Privation, or whether they had no Beginning, in respect of him, ’twas all one) and Creatures whose Existence depended upon that Being; and that without his Continuance they could not continue, nor exist without his Existing, nor have been eternal without his being Eternal; but that he was essentially independent of them, and free from them.  And how should it be otherwise, when it is demonstrated, that his Power and Might are infinite, and that all Bodies, and whatsoever belongs to them are finite?  Consequently, that the whole World, and whatsoever