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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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Those Natures oF Things Deisied, BoOKL
to ihe Politicat and crvit Theoloey OF che PAxanS, chese accidenta
Thines of Nature, and affections oE substances, Personated,s Wveremace
Comany Gods and Coddesses, cicero himselE in his Book ot Laws ap
provins oF such Political Gods aS he(e; Bene vero quod Mens, Pietas.
Virius, Fides, consecratur manu: quarum omnium RONX dedicata pb
lice Templa sunt, ut illa qui habeant (habent autem omnes boni) Deos 
psos in animis suis collocaros putent: Et is vell, that Mind, Piety, Vir.
tue and Faith are consecrated. (all whieh have their Temples publicks
dedicated at ROmC) ihat so they who possess these thines (as all 600d men
do) maythink that ihey have the Cods themselves placed in their minas.
And himselEmakes a Law For chem, in his omn Common. wealch, bl
rich a Cautionary Provition, thacnO Fvil and vicions Thines beCoM
secrated amones them; Ast olla, propier quae datur homini adscen si
in caelum, Mentem, Virintem, Pietatem, Fidem, earumque laudum da
lubra sunto.. Neculla viliorum Solemnia obeunto: Eet them also mon
srip ihose thines by means whereos, men ascend up 1o Heaven, and la
ihere be Shrines or Temples Dedicated to them. But let no heligidi
Ceremonies be performed. 10 Vicions Thines.
Nocmichstandins all wrhich accordins to that TheolosY ot illo
Pasans wrtich was called by Parro Natural, (Whereby is vcanE M
thac which was Physiolosicat ouly, buc chat ivhict is True and Redn
and by scaevola Philosophical; and which is by both opPOsCd, nOLOns
co che Poetical and Fabulons, Duc allotoche Political and ervit; llas
accordine tochis Theolosy oF cheirs, thele Accidentat Thines os a
ture Deisied, could by no means be ackenom ledged For Erne and Pros
Cods; because chey vere (o tar trom havins any lile aud senle
them, chaccher had not (o much as inssaoir n, 3C lav, any Reat Su0)a
stence or Substantial Essence oETheir omn. And chus does orisen dilpuu
again (t Minervas Codchip, as Tropologically interpreced, 10 Prudenta
inae 3 a TeonONOziiras i NEyuila e soiS CivaL n A, cos 
avriis rluo inisa C, 1 in ru soii cos vvesmujas:  rli reononoyiar radha
Is Actena or Minerra be Tropoloeized into Prudence, ihen let ihe lasa
Nom nhat substantial Essence it hath, orthat it Really Subsists accorati
1orhis Tropolosy. Wtrich is all onc as il he ould hare Paid, Let 
Pagans chenstiem hom chis can bea God or Coddess, wtrich hach ie
(0 much as auy substantial Essence, nor Subsists by ie Cell, butis a mll
accidemat affection oE Subltances orly. And chelame chine is lit
ise ursed by orisen, concernins other such kind of Codsofche.
28 Memory ThCMOTheF OF the Mules, and che Craces all natech in 
First BOOK; Wvhere celsus contended For a mulciplicier oF Ood5
eain(c che Jens; chat chese chinss havins not inesaeou ny sC iar 
substantial Essence or Subsistence, could noc possibly beaccoun
Cods, and cheretore vere nochins else, buE FMncor asaen na
OCVPATOOM Derra a rd X reayUdrV, meer Fiements of rhe Orecks; Thu
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