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Dr. Clarke's Second Reply
[1] See Appendix, No. 4.
[2] See the Note in my First Reply, §. 3.
[3] Ut partium Temporis Ordo est immutabilis, sic etiam Ordo partium Spatij. Moveantur hæ de locis suis, & movebuntur (ut ita dicam) de Seipsis. Newton. Principia, Schol. ad Defin. 8.
[4] See the Note on Mr. Leibnitz's First Paper. § 4.
[5] See my Sermons preach'd at Mr. Boyles Lecture. Part 1. Page 106. Fourth Edition.
[6] See Appendix, No. 2.
[7] See Appendix, No 1.
[8] Hic [Deus] omnia regit, non ut Anima Mundi, sed ut universorum Dominus. — Deus est vox relativa, & ad Servos refertur; & Deitas est Dominatio Dei, non in corpus propium, sed in Servos. — In ipso continentur & moventur universa, sed absque mutuâ passione. Deus nihil patitur ex corporum Motibus; illa nullam sentiunt resistentiam ex Omnipræsentiâ Dei. — Corpore omni & figurâ corporeâ prorsus destituitur; ideoque videri non potest, nec audiri, nec tangi, nec sub specie rei alicujus corporei coli debet. Ideas habemus Attributorum ejus; sed quid sit rei alicujus Substantia, minimè cognoscimus. — Intimas [corporum] Substantias nullo Sensu, nulla actione reflexâ cognoscimus, & multò minus Ideam habemus Substantiæ Dei. Hunc cognoscimus solummodò per Proprietates suas & Attributa, & per sapientissimas & optimas rerum structuras, & causas finales; veneramur autem & colimus ob dominium. Deus enim sine Dominio, Providentia, & Causis Finalibus, nihil aliud est quàm Fatum & Natura. i. e. God Governs all Things, not as a Soul of the World, but as the Lord of the Universe. — God, is a relative Word, carrying in it the notion of Relation to Servants. And the Godhead of God, is His Dominion: A Dominion, not like that of a Soul over its own Body, but that of a Lord over his Servants. — In Him all Things subsist and move, but without a mutual affecting of each other, [such as is between Soul and Body.] God is no way affected by the Motions of Bodies; and the Motion of Bodies meets with no Obstruction from the Omnipresence of God. — He is altogether without Body or Bodily Shape; and therefore can neither be Seen, nor Heard, nor Felt; nor ought to be worshipped under the similitude of any Corporeal Thing. We have Ideas of his Attributes; but what the Substance of any Thing is, we know not at all. — The very Substances themselves, even of Bodies, we cannot come at the knowledge of, either by any of our Senses, or by any reflex Act of the Mind: much less have we any Idea of the Substance of God. Him we know, only by his Properties and Attributes, and by his most Wise and Excellent Disposition of Things, and by Final Causes: And we adore and worship him, upon account of his Dominion. For a God without Dominion, without Providence and Final Causes, is nothing but Fate and Nature. Newtoni Principia, Scholium generale sub finem.
