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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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Cutticienely consured by the Learned Harvey, in his Book of Cenerati
on That ibe Seed doth Materially enter, into the Composition of ihe F8B:
Poisit all alons Precarious and Exceprionable; nor does it extend
ac alt co che Disferences chat are in sereral Animals, Ox OHFer che
least Reason, why an Animal oF one Species or Kind, mighe nOc BC
l’ormed out oF the Sced oF anotHer.
Uis here indeed Pretended by chese Mechanick Theists, that Finat
Canses, cheretore ouxhr notto be or any Rcsard eo à Philolopher.
because we Bould noc arrorate 10 Our selves 1o be a5 Wise as C0d
Almiptuy is, or to be Privy 10 his Secrets. Phus in che Meraphysicat
Meditations; atq; ob hanc 2nicam Rationem torum illud Causarum
senus, quod a Fine peri solet, in kebus Physicis nullum 2 sum habere
existimo; non enim absque remeritate me puto, investisare posse Fines
Dei. And again likemise in che Principles of Philosophy. Nullas unquam
Rationes circa Res Naturales, à Fine quem Dens aut Natura in iis faci-
endis sibi proposuit, admittimus, quia non tantum nobis debemus arrosare.
ut ejus consiliorum participes esse possimus. BUEThC OuCstiOnISNOE, WVhe-
Cher me con alvazs reach coche Endsof Cod almishty, and knon
ohac is absolutety Best in every case, aud accordinsly makce Conclu.
hions, chat chereretore che chinx is, or ouxheto bc (o; but, WhechCE
any chins ac all, vere made br God, For Endsand Good, Otherwise
han vould OF ic SEIE have relulced Trom the Fortuitons Motion Ot
Malter. Nevertheless me sec no Reaton ac all, why ic Mould BC
Chouxhie Presumption, Or Entrusion inco che Secrets oF God Almixher
attiem, chac eres vere made by tim For the End of secins (and
ecordinelus (o concrived as mixhe bese conduce thercunto) and
Cars Cor ihe End OE Hearine, and che like. This beins (0 plain, chat
noctime buc sottiso scupidiiy, or atheistick incredulity (mastred pertraps
muder an Hypocricical Veil oE Humility) can makee any douDi there-
DE
And cherctore Aristorle justly reprehended Anaxagoras, For thac
ablurd aphorism oE tis, diee rd xeicas exciv, reoupcorator civet  2co-
7 ardeconov, That Man mas therefore the Wisest (or most Solert) of all
inimals, because he Chanced to have hands. He noc doubcins 10aF.
LIII On ThC C ONTTarY; d’nogor diie r DecujcratoV Eiva = ECoCV XCi95
W DborE ael dhaeveuet n De  arBeCONO DeSVuD,  dorapdsce
ExcV.
naes EraesOV. goOrnc Zd  si avarin SSVaL aMoN av1 S5, i r av
165 Epora Degaivaes avauulus. That il mas far more reasonable 10 ihinke.
ibat becanse Man vas ihe Wisest (or most Solert and ActivC) os all A-
imals, iherefore he had Fands siven him. For Nature (Paict he) di
pributerto as a Wise man dott, ohat is suitable to every one; and it is
more Proper 10 sive Pipes to one ibat hath Musieal Skillu than upon him
ibat hath eipes, 1o beston Mnsical Still.
Nheretore chele Mechanick Theists would Furcher, alledge, and that
Lihlome more Colour ot Realon; Thac it is belon cheDignier oE
od Almixhey, 1ocondescend eo all chose mean and triviat Offices.
and ro do che Thines OF Nature himelt immediacly; as al(0 chac ie
hould De bur a Borch in Nature, it the Desects thereoE Were everr
vhere co be suxplicd by Mtiracle. Buc cochis allo chie Reply is catie:)
hac chough che Divine Wisdom ic (elF concriredche Syltem oF the
hole W orid, For ends and Cood, Vet Nature, a5 au Inferiour Mine-
se