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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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260 lhe dupreme oddenored by Appellatires. BOOK. 
ducedamonsst the Orceks, and derived in all probabilier, From th
Hebrem Sabaoth, Or Adonai Tsebaoth, the Ford of Hosts, (that is oF thC
Hlcavenly HoIs) oxthe Supreme Covernour oF the W orId. Whict
theretore aristophanes cook norice oE, as a sranse and foreign 60d,
lacely cxept in amons sEchem, chac ougtit to be banisti d our ol Greece
thele sereral Names OF Ood bcins chen vulgarly spoken Of, aS (0 mans
distinet Deities; as Mall be more Fully declared aftermards. Wetai
likemise ellenhiere Mon, chat besides 246, rar also was used by the
Orccks, as a Name Tor that Ood, Wrhois the supreme Moderator anc
Covernour ot che trhole WV orid.
Thac the Latins did in likse manner, by fupiter and fovis, Frequent.
Iy denote the supreme Deity, and Monarch of the 2niverse, is a thiB
unquestionable; and irhich does sutticiently appear From thole ep
thers that mere commonly sivento tim, oE optimus and Maximus, l
Best and the Crcatest, a5 allo oF Omnipotens trequently bestored ut
on him by rirsil and ochers. Which word Jupiter or Jovis, thou8
Cicero etymolosize it a fuvando, or From Juvans Pater, as not hnot
ins hon to doit ochermile, yet we may rather conclude ic to habe
been oE in Flebraical Extraction, and derired trom that Zetraeram
maton or Name oF Ood, consiltins OFF OUT COnonants; rhose Vom
els (rhich ic mas to bepronounced with) though they be not non
certainly knoun, yet multit necds have Comeluch Cound as chis,
cher Jovah, Or Tahuoh, or 18co or tuco, or the like: and the abbre
BrevIatION OE chis Name was Zah. FOr as che Pasan Nations, ha
besides ApDellatives, thcir several Proper Names For Ood, (0 alohau
che Hlebrems cheirs, and such as beins siven by Cod humelt, Wa
most exprective oF his Nature, it sienityins Eternal and Necessai)
Existence.
But in the next place We aH tusset, ettat che PaganS dict no
ouly signitie rhe Supreme Cod, by chese Proper Names, but also trequea
ly by che appellatives themselves, when uled not For a Cod in Ceta
ral, buE FOr TheGod, Or Cod nar EEoxlu, and by mayos emineney. Al
chuso Decs and deos are often taken by ihe Crcetes, not for deu
N.
a Cod, Or one of the Gods, tut For Cod, or the Supreme Deit)
have several Fxamples hereot, in Paltaxes betore. cited occationats
inehis very Chapter, as in thâc oF aristotle 3, F1 3V av neci 3 or n, 67. 5i 
xli o Deds: What is there therefore, that ean beberter than knomlede
but onty Cod: A5 al(O EhaE Other OE his, that HappineIS consistet
Principally in Vertue, Ecc orrcopONoYo, or nu paeet  Dco Xecodi
it is a lhine that oueht to be achnomle deed by us from the Nature of Ced
S0 likemise in that OF Thales, XeCOBVTATOV ralvicor o Deo5, à 7 rOV
Cod is the oldest os all lhines, because he is Unmade, and Fhat OE M
ximus Tyrius, rooi deoi naides des i ovvece zortes deco, Many Cocs
Sonsos Cod and Co reieners tosether with Cod. Besidles Which, cherc hat
been octers allo mentioned, Which we Mall nOT Here repeat. A
innumerable more luctances oE chis Hind mixte be added, as chat 
antiphanes, Decs sdui eoinco, dierrce avrir 55 15 exuadeis eE cinere deraian
Cod is like 1o nothine, for mhich cause he cannot be learnt by anp. sro
an tmage: Ttis oE Socrates, ei raven sinov  deco, raven yveaun
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