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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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ehis Finite Worid miphe roml and cumble Infinitely. Buc 25 WeC
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ceire, all ehat ean bedemonstrated here, is no more thau chis.
hon rastloerer che Finice Wortd Mould be, Vetis there a Possibilis
OEmore and more Magniinde aud Body, Ailleo be added eo it, turche
and surther, by Divine Pover, Infinitely; Or that che World could n
ver be made (o Creat, no noc by Cod himsels, as chat his oun Omlla
potence could noc make il yet Orcater. Which Pocential Infinity C
Indefinite Encreasableness OE Corporeal Magniinde, Ccemsto have bect
mictatien Cor an actual Enfinity oF Space. Whereas Tor chis very Rea
son, beceuse more could be added to che Magnitude OF ihe Corpe
real World Infinitely, ex without end; cheretore is it impossible ibal
Mould ever bePosirively and actually Ensinite; Thac is, such as 10 whle
nochine more can Poltibly be added. Wheretore we concude eo
cerrins corporeal Maenitude, 2s we did betore et Number; chac 1hc
ean beno absolute and actual Insinity chereol; aud chac hon mile
Valter soever, che Worid may be, than accordins co che Suppolua
on oF Vulsar ABronOmers, Whro makce che Starry Sphere chec
most Wall chereot, y et is ic not absolutelus infinite, suet 25 l cally haca
No Bounds Or Limits at all; nor eo itich Nochins more could et
Divine Pover be added. Lastly, we altum litevile concernine ia
Or Successive Duration, chat chere ean beno Insinitys OE Chac netthet
no Temporal Eternity without Beginnins: and chac not onty beculia
chere nould chen be an actual Ensinity and more chan an Iutinic
Number; but also because uxon chis supposition, chere oule
ayshavebeen an Intiniey ol Time Past, aud consequenely au lntics
OFTime Past, Which was never Present. Whereas al che Momenio
Past Time, mult necds have been once present; aud il 50, chen al
ehiem, ac lea(E (aVCODC, PUEurC C0O; Crom ivhence ic will sollon
etat chere was a F irst Aoment or Bceinnine ol Zime. And chus do
Reason conclude, neicher che Worid nOr Zime it SelE, 10 have bee
Enfinite in Chcir Past Duration, Or Eternal Without Beginnine.
Here will che atheist chinte prelencls, he hach sOt a BreaC 3etval
cagero disprove the Existence os a Cod Nonne qui se cermitatem Aliu
di sic tollunt, eadem opera etiam Mundi Conditori  ternitarem tollu
Donot They, oho thus destroy ihe Pternity of the Woridu at ibe sat
time destroy also the Eternity of the Creator? For is Time it sels wn
not Eternal, then hon conld the Deity or any thine beso? The Aill
securels taline ic sOR BraNCCd, thaE Cod him (CtE could not 
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Ochermise Eternal, than by a Successive F. lux of Insinite Time.
Car, chac ehis will on che concrary aftord us a plain Demonstration
che Existence OE a Deity. For Cuce che Wortd and Zime ic sell
nOc insinite in cheir Past. Duration, but tad a Besinnine, cherelo
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is in order oE Nature Senior CoZime, aud (0 without Time,
Time; hebeins above chac Succeltive Flux, and competiendins
ehe stability and immutable perfection oE his omn Beins, his Festet
day and Z0 day and For ever. Or chus; Somechins wasoE necells
Infinite in Duration, and without Besinnine; Bue neichex cheo
NOr Morion, nor Time, chacis, no successive Beine, Was sueh; che
fore is chere somechiins elle whose Beins ane Duration is nOCd
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