. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . hat we can proveThinking to be no Property of Matter; fromwhence it neceffarily follows, that the Think-ing Principle is Immaterial. When it is faid ofGod, that he is a Spirit, can the meaningbe any other than that he is a pure incor-poreal Mind ? And if there be one Immate-rial Being in the univerfe, there can be no-thing contradidtory or ridiculous in the fup-pofi ion of more. It is, on the contrary,moft natural to conceive, that whateverBeing
. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . hat we can proveThinking to be no Property of Matter; fromwhence it neceffarily follows, that the Think-ing Principle is Immaterial. When it is faid ofGod, that he is a Spirit, can the meaningbe any other than that he is a pure incor-poreal Mind ? And if there be one Immate-rial Being in the univerfe, there can be no-thing contradidtory or ridiculous in the fup-pofi ion of more. It is, on the contrary,moft natural to conceive, that whateverBeing refembles God in the faculties ofUnderftanding and Will, is further like himin the Immateriality of his Effence. The Reader may obferve, I have takenit for granted, that Thought is not effentialto Matter, and that the Divine Being is Im-material and Immenfe j not, I can afTure Mr. Dio- of the Soul. 387 Diogenes^ from any apprehenfion I have ofthe difficulty of demonftrating thefe things,but as charitably fuppofing he is not yet foforfaken of all Reafon as to deny them:when he (hall do this, it will be timeenough to fet about the proof of JSK3B POEMS O N Several Occasions. mi
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