Qu. whether it be the vis inertiæ that makes it difficult to move a stone, or the vis attractivæ, or both, or neither?
Mem. To express the doctrines as fully and copiously and clearly as may be. Also to be full and particular in answering objections[107].
S.
To say ye Will is a power; [therefore] volition is an act. This is idem per idem.
Wt makes men despise extension, motion, &c., & separate them from the essence of the soul, is that they imagine them to be distinct from thought, and to exist in unthinking substance.
An extended may have passive modes of thinking good actions.
There might be idea, there might be uneasiness, there might be the greatest uneasiness wthout any volition, therefore the....
M.
Matter once allow'd, I defy any man to prove that God is not Matter[108].