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(b) Have things existed in an
Eternall [eternal], never beginning series?

This is absurd, for no series can
be eternal – it is made up of a
limited number.

If the first in each series had not
a beginning – then there were eternall [eternal]
beasts &c. [etc.] self-existent &c. [etc.]

Eternal Rose – eternal lion &c. [etc.]

Each one of the generations was
once present – every succession
consists of parts – & is numerable.

Eternal motion was not the
antecedent of all things.

For it is but a succession