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Sect: I. Law in General 9

Inanimate Matter Gods Law. "the hand shall describe a given space in a given time; to which Law as —
"long as the work conforms, so long it continues it's perfection, and answers
the end of it's formation."

What I one could be glad to know upon this occasion is whether "not conforming
to a Law be the same as "departing" from it": because if it is, I one may perceive
see a great change [in the compass of a few lines] in the fate of a thing
that is [under a Law, does not perform as the Law would have it.] <add>which being ridden by a Law, and runs rusty: and that in the compass of a few lines.</add>

Just now, this was an accident that could never happen: now it may —
happen, it should seem, at any time; no one knows how soon. If however,
against possibility, it should; the consequence was, just now, less
of existence: at present; the less only of perfection. Our Author thinking
Judgement of annihilation seeming rather severe, our author has repented him, it seems,
of the evil, likened to mercy rather than justice, and granted the rebellious
creature a kind of conditional reprieve. [Perhaps he] had just He had
them] Milton's Adam perhaps added text in his eye.] Another thing I one should be glad to
Inanimate matter Clocks-makers Law. know: and that is, whether the Laws, a workman makes for his clock,
are the same sort of things as the Laws of motion he was just now
speaking of: Laws made as if by God Almighty; or not? if not, what else
they are, and what becomes meantime of God Almighty's Laws? if —
they are, whether the case is, that after God Almighty has made them,
the clockmaker makes them over again? and how in short the engenuity
of my our Author would contrive to settle matters betwixt God Almighty
and the Clockmaker.

Also a curiosity Ione should like to see is a precedent (of a Law such as
it would be proper for a Clockmaker to make for a good eight day —

Sect: I. Law in General 9

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