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Daniel Was In The Greatest Credit Amongst The Jews, Till The Reign Of The Roman Emperor Hadrian . And To Reject His Prophecies, Is To Reject The Christian Religion. For This Religion Is Founded Upon His Prophecy Concerning The Messiah .

We Are Not To Consider The World As The Body Of God: He Is An Uniform Being, Void Of Organs, Members, Or Parts; And They Are His Creatures, Subordinate To Him, And Subservient To His Will.

It Seems Probable To Me That God, In The Beginning, Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Moveable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportions To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them; And That These Primitive Particles, Being Solids, Are Incomparably Harder Than Any Porous Bodies Compounded Of Them, Even So Very Hard As Never To Wear Or Break In Pieces; No Ordinary Power Being Able To Divide What God Had Made One In The First Creation.

Our Design, Not Respecting Arts, But Philosophy, And Our Subject, Not Manual, But Natural Powers, We Consider Chiefly Those Things Which Relate To Gravity, Levity, Elastic Force, The Resistance Of Fluids, And The Like Forces, Whether Attractive Or Impulsive; And Therefore We Offer This Work As Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy; For All The Difficulty Of Philosophy Seems To Consist In This From The Phenomena Of Motions To Investigate The Forces Of Nature, And Then From These Forces To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena.

...from The Same Principles, I Now Demonstrate The Frame Of The System Of The World.