A Body In Motion Tends

All My Discoveries Have Been Made In Answer To Prayer.

And From True Lordship It Follows That The True God Is Living, Intelligent, And Powerful; From The Other Perfections, That He Is Supreme, Or Supremely Perfect. He Is Eternal And Infinite, Omnipotent And Omniscient; That Is, He Endures From Eternity To Eternity; And He Is Present From Infinity To Infinity; He Rules All Things, And He Knows All Things That Happen Or Can Happen.

My Principal Method For Defeating Error And Heresy Is By Establishing The Truth. One Purposes To Fill A Bushel With Tares, But If I Can Fill It First With Wheat, I May Defy His Attempts.

Those Qualities Of Bodies That Cannot Be Intended And Remitted [i.e., Qualities That Cannot Be Increased And Diminished] And That Belong To All Bodies On Which Experiments Can Be Made Should Be Taken As Qualities Of All Bodies Universally.

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.