To treat of Infinite Effects, produced from an an Infinite Cause, is an endless Work, and impossible to be performed, or effected; only this may be said, That the Effects, though Infinite, are so united to the material Cause, as that not any single effect can be, nor no Effect can be annihilated; by reason all Effects are in the power of the Cause. But this is to be noted, That some Effects producing other Effects, are, in some sort or manner, a Cause. CHAP. XVII. Of INFLUENCE. An _Influence_ is this; When as the Corporeal Figurative Motions, in different kinds, and sorts of Creatures, or in one and the same sorts, or kinds, move sympathetically: And though there be antipathetical Motions, as well as sympathetical; yet, all the Infinite parts of Matter, are agreeable in their nature, as being all Material, and Self-moving; and by reason there is no _Vacuum_, there must of necessity be an Influence amongst all the Parts of Nature. CHAP. XVIII. Of FORTUNE and CHANCE. _Fortune_, is only various Corporeal Motions of several Creatures, design'd to one Creature, or more Creatures; either to _that_ Creature, or _those_ Creatures Advantage, or Disadvantage: If Advantage, Man names it _Good Fortune_; if Disadvantage, Man names it _Ill Fortune_. As for _Chance_, it is the visible Effects of some hidden Cause; and _Fortune_, a sufficient Cause to produce such Effects: for, the conjunction of sufficient Causes, doth produce such or such Effects; which Effects could not be produced, if any of those Causes were wanting: So that, _Chances_ are but the Effects of Fortune. CHAP. XIX. Of TIME and ETERNITY. _Time_ is not a Thing by it self; nor is _Time_ Immaterial: for, _Time_ is only the variations of Corporeal Motions; but Eternity depends not on Motion, but of a Being without Beginning, or Ending. The Second Part. CHAP. I. Of CREATURES. All Creatures are Composed-Figures, by the consent of Associating Parts; by which Association, they joyn into such, or such a figured Creature: And though every Corporeal Motion, or Self-moving Part, hath its own motion; yet, by their Association, they all agree in proper actions, as actions proper to their Compositions: and, if every particular Part, hath not a perception of all the Parts of their Association; yet, every Part knows its own Work. CHAP. II. Of Knowledg and Perception of different kinds and sorts of Creatures.