"In Chief is God, and in his Deity

"The Word and Spirit confubftantiate Be. "One Nature, and one Godhead co-partake "Thefe Three, and one eternal Being "make."

Cal. Cal. M.P.395. "And of all kinds "of Motion,that which is circular proceeding from itself, and returning into itself." -P. 393. "We read in Plato that a Mind. " inhabits the Center of the World and "thence extends itself to the Extremities,ac

tuating all Things; and by turning itself into itself pervades to the utmost Parts, or very back of the Syftem." Ibid. cited M. P. p. 69. "The old Oracle of Serapis, answered Nicocreon King of the Cyprians, when he enquired which of the Gods he was, and what was his Form ?

LL Such is my Godhead as I tell to thee; "Heav'ns ftarry Vault my Head, my Womb "the Sea;

Ear;

"Earth is my Footstool, Æther is my "My far-enlightning Eye the Sun's bright "Sphere."

Voffius de Phil. Chrift. Lib. 7. p. 160. çited M. P. p. 75. "That the Sun was every thing with Orpheus thefe Verses (c are a Proof.

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Oh thou, who by the Air's converfive "Force

"Drives in a constant circulating Course, "Thou fhining Vortex of the Heaven's vaft " Sphere,

Jove Dyonifius mighty Father hear.

"Of Earth and Sea, thou radiating Flame "That's chang'd thro' all, and yet in all "the fame,

"All generative Sun!"

'Tis as inconfiftent with, and as deftructive of the Scheme of the Heathens, to fuppofe any Space or Vacuum, and fo Projection and Attraction, or Gravity, as 'tis of the revealed Religion. For if the Fluid of Air in fome of its three Conditions poffeffed or filled, or was all Space, which was not filled with Solids or other Fluids, and so was immenfly large, their Jupiter, Deus, &c. then that was what was, and what constituted Space, and if he take that away, he leaves the Heathen no Deus; and Believers, Jews, or Chriftians, no mechanical Agents.

The Account we have about their Space was not in this Syftem, but, beyond it. Gaffendus, Vol. I. p. 135. cited M. P. P. 533. "The Pythagoreans were nearly "of the fame Opinion with the Stoics, M 2

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Ariftotle does, that there was an in"finite Void beyond the Heaven, (or "World) which Themiftius faith is not "only romantic, but mere Madness, fince "it can neither be fhewn what it is, nor "of what Use it is: And yet Plutarch "declares the Pythagoreans fuppofed a "Void beyond the World, that there "might be Room for the World to "breathe in."

Athan. Kircher, Itin. Extat. p. 274. cited M. P. p. 310. "The Ether intimately pervades all Bodies whatever, "that there fhould be no Vacuum any "where." Plato Op. omn. p. 1063. "The Sphere of univerfal Nature infolds

every thing within its circular Embrace, "endeavours to mix with itself, lays a "Stress upon the whole, and fuffers no "Place to be void of Matter. Wherefore,

Fire, in the firft Place, penetrates or "pervades every thing; next Air, as being next to it in Fineness of Parts, and "fo other Things in proportion."

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If Jehovah the Effence exifting do not dwell here, do not conftitute infinite Space, or infinite Extenfion be not a Definition of Jehovah, or Jehovah the Ef fence be not infinitely extended, there is no infinite Space, and all is gone; and if infinitely

infinitely extended, be not the Perfection or a true Definition of Matter, 'tis a Term without a Subject, a Condition without an Object. If the Heathen Description of Jupiter, the Substance of the Air, the Names from Center to Circumference be a Plenum, full, a fluid Subftance, which cannot be compreffed into lefs Space, any more than the Parts of a Diamond, and fill all that is not full; and that all the Antients, as he calls them, knew it, till, as Sieur Petit. Differt. fur la Nat. du Froid & du Chaud, p. 137. fays an Italian I suppofe Torricellius, about 1646. Others, Otto Gueric, and after him Mr. Boyle, deceived themselves and others by their pretended Experiments, upon the Parts of that penetrating and pervading Fluid; as I have fhewed that Deus will not ferve his Turn, the facred Scriptures fay they are full. Gen. i. 17, And God fet them (the Orbs and Stars) in the Expansion of the Names. Job. xxxvii. 18, Canft thou with him expand the Ethers which are Strong as a molten Glass. Prov. viii. 27, When, he machined the Names, I was there--when he gave Strength to theÆthers (or Strugglers) above. Pfal.lxviii. 35,Afcribe ye Strength unto the Aleim, his Excellency is over Ifrael, and his Strength in the Ethers. Ibid. 150. 1. Hallelu-jah,

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Hallelu-jah in his Holy One. Afcribe Irradiation to him in the Expansion of his Strength. His Aratus from Mar. Ecl. 3. "All is full of Jove." Ariftotle, of the World by Apuleius, "All Things are full "of Jove, whose Existence and Omniprefence is not conceived by Thought alone, but by the Eyes, Ears, and all "the Senses."--P. 405. “ In the fame

manner the celeftial Energy, after he had, .′ by his Wisdom and Goodness begun "Motion, infinuates the Force of his Ma

jefty, by a continued Impulfe from one "thing to a second, and then to a third, and fo on to the laft: One thing is "moved by another; and the Motion of one is the Caufe of the Motion of the "other. So that as above, all Things

are moved by mutual Impulfes." The Apoftate Jews, who took this Deus to as bad a Purpose, fay it fills all that is not full of other Matter. Philo Leg. Alleg. by Gelin, p. 61. "God fills all Things,

penetrates all Things, leaving nothing void of himself." Voffius de Orig. & -Prog. Idol. Lib. 2. p. 158. "God fills

all, and penetrates all, and leaves no "Place void and emptied of himself." As the Devil and the Heathens fet up the Names for Aleim, for Jupiter, the Subftance, and laftly, for Deus, you