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CHAP. VII. Of Time and Eterntiy. p. 72.
SECT. I.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe Hoti of Time more easily conceivable by the Simple Notion of the Vulgar, then by the complex Definitions of Philoso∣phers.
- ibid.
- 2 The General praesumption that Time is Corpo∣real, or an Accident dependent on Corporeal Subjects; the chief Cause of that Difficulty.
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- 3 The variety of opinions, concerning it; ano∣ther Cause of the Difficulty: and Epicurus Description of its Essence, recited and explain∣ed.
- ibid.
- 4 Time defined to be Coelestial Motion, by Zeno, Chrysippus, &c. and thereupon affirmed, by Philo, to be onely Coaevous to the World.
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- 5 Aristotles so much magnifyed Definition of Time to be the Measure of Motion Coelestial, &c. perpended and found too light.
- ibid.
SECT. II.
ARTIC▪
- 1 TIme, nor substance, nor Accident: but an Ens more General, and the Twin-brother of Space.
- ibid.
- 2 A Paralellism betwixt Space and Time.
- ibid.
- 3 Time, Senior unto, and independent upon Mo∣tion: and onely accidentally indicated by Mo∣tion, as the Mensuratum by the Mensura.
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- 4 A demonstration of the independence of Time upon Motion, from the miraculous Detention of the Sun, above the Horison, in the days of Joshua.
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- 5 An Objection, that, during the arrest of the Sun, there was no Time, because no Hours; satisfyed.
- ibid.
- 6 The Immutability of Time also asserted against Aristotle.
- ibid.
SECT. III.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe Grand Question, concerning the Dispa∣rity of Time and Aeternity: stated.
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- 2 Two praeparatory Considerations, touchant the aequivocal use of the word Aeternity: requi∣site to the cleer solution thereof.
- ibid
- 3 Two decisive Positions, thereupon inferred and established.
- 79
- 4 The Platonicks Definition of Eternity, to be one Everlasting Now; not intelligible, and therefore collusive.
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- 5 Their Assertors subterfuge, that Eternity is Coexistent to Time; also unintelligible.
- ibid.
- 6 Our Ecclesiastick Doctors, taking Sanctuary in the 3. Exod. for the authorizing of their Doctrine, that the Present Tense is onely competent to God, and so that Eternity is one permanent Instant, without Fusion or Suc∣cession: not secure from the rigour of our De∣monstration.
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- 7 The Objective Praesence of all things at once, to the Divine Intellect; no ways impugned by our contradiction of the Doctors theory.
- ibid
- 8 Nor the Immutability of the Divine Nature, against Aristotle.
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- 9 Coronis.
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