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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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CMAP. IV. Os a Substantial Lvil Principle
the Maccer is Caid by Plato, cohave been Moved disorderly, we con
ceire chat chat Philolopher did cherein only adhere eo chac VulBF-
ly receired Pradition, irhich mas Originally Motaical, chac ctic
First becimmine ot he Cosmopaeia, Was Trom a Chaos, OP Mlater con
suseciy moved, alcermard brouxhe inco Order. And non mechinte
IE plainle appears, chac chere is no ltrenseh ac aIl in any ol elutarches
Forementioned Allexations, nor any sueh Monster 10 be Found any
Wrhere in Plato, 25 eis substantial Fvit Principle or Cod, a Wicked
Soul or Demon, Unmade and SelF. existent From Pternier, OppoTue
and Inimicons eo the 600d Cod, Charins che empire and Domini-
on OF che Woria wich him. Which Opinion is really nochins clse
bucche Deispine of the Devil, or Prince oFlvil Spiries, makcin him
a Coerival wich Ciod, and enticlins him 10 a Rixhc oF reccivins D1.
vine Hlonour and Worctip.
And it is observable chat Plutareh himselE consessech chis Incerpre-
tation which he matces oF Plato, to be Nem and Paradoxical. Or an
Invention oE his omn, ii dide rd ANcisoIS. d a nd HNATCVO V EraSaI, Psych. 5. P. L. 1X
deduuor naequdia Such as becanse it mas contrary to ihe Generally
received opinion os platonists, himsels thoueht to stand in necdos some
Apolosy and Defence. To wtrich purpose cherctore he adds again.
ReCOTOV ZV V L7o CdC TSTCV Dlavoiuer, en Duooua nissu  7 Cinbr, 1 P. 1014.
racequvosuhoO aS Evesi, rd aandes 28 NoyS,  naeddoEor. Iwil (Paith
HC) declare mine oon Opinion first concernine these thines, consirmine
it mith Probabilities, and as much as possibly Tean, aidins and assist.
ins the Truth and Paradoxicalness thereof. Moreover Proctus upon che
Timaeus tales notice ot no other Philolophers, thac ever impuced chis
Doctrine to Plato, or indeed maintained any such Opinion, ot Tivo
Substancial Principles oF600d and Fvil, buc ouly Plutareh and AITCUS S
(ChoughI contels Chalcidins cites Numenius alto co thelame purpolc)
Proclus his mords are these: oi pesd i HNSTaeZOV Y XECCVEU  A 71
noI reoCivo paoi Tir ane C pntor INW neO ~ qVEoECOS, negcirat 3 i TuV
nancerlT LoxiV TiV ZSTO naSoTV, nb der jd n nimors nv, n a no 10215; ci.
arantos i nimors, aend a ran Jugis. PluLarehus Cheronen(IS and ACi-
cus maintain, that before the Generation and Formation of theWorid
there mas Onformed and disorderty Malter existins (Erom Pcerniey)
tosether with a Malesicent Soul; for whence, say they, could that Moti-
on of the Matrer, in Platos Fimaeus, procede, but srom a Soul: andif it
vere a Disorderly Motion, it must iben needs eome from a Disorderty Soul.
And as Proctus cells us, chat chis Opinion oftheirs had been betore con-
Fnted by Porphyrius and Tamblychus, as chac irtrich was boch Trracional
andimpious, (0 doch he chere literise himselE briesty retel ic in chele
Tiro Propositions; Pirst, thac naiou Luxn Sniu 631 78 DES, Lvery
Soulis the Of sprine of Coc, and chere ean be no Soulnor any chine
else, belides Cod SelF. exictins; and Secondly, rd naenor diccovior noien
o aop i, rd a Dov aTOnOV, 3 Zd oubripaor 2 Dcico 20 à Deov, 8c Enior5 a
Nmtor, 3 Sncos ailiomen vor. Et is absurd 10 mahe Fvil alike Eternal
with 600d. for that whichis Codless cannot be of like honour with Cod.
and equally Onmade, nor indeed ean there be any thine at all, positively op
posite toCod.
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