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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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Whether Ciod Demonstrable.
dicting Future Pvents, this spirit of Propheeybeins ihe Testimony o
tesus. Boch ertrich Scripture. Prophecies, Of Christ in theOId TC-
lamene; and From tim in che NeW, are OF equal, IE HOE GTCALCE
lorce ro us in ehis present Age, For the Contirmation ot our l’aict.
chan che Miracles chemselres recorded in che Scripture, we havine
hon certain knomledse our selves, oF many oF thole Events; anc
Deins no may able 10 suspect, BuE chât che Prophecies Were iVriten
lons belore.
Toconclude, all chele Extraordinary Phaenomena, OE Apparitions
Witcherast, Possessions, Miractes, aud Prophecies, do P vince That spi
rus, angels or Demons, though Tnsistble tous, are no Phancies, DuE
Real and substantiat Prihabitants OF thc W orid3 Wtrict FAVOUES BOL
ine atheistick Hypothesis; but Tome oE chem, asthe Fligher kind ot
Miracles, and Predictions, do allo immediatly entorce che actenoir-
ledement oF a Deity: a Beins superiour to Nature, Which cheretOre
can check and controulit; and which comprehendins che Whole Fore.
Enons chemost Remotely distant, aud Continsent Fvents.
And non have we noc oniy falir Antvered and Contrced, all che
beistick Pretences againt che Idea of Cod, cendins eo disprove his
uistence; buc also occationally propoled, several solid aud Sub-
antiat Rreumenis FOr a Deity: ad, That aI Successive thines, 1hC
orld, Motion, and sime, are in cheir omn Nature absolutely uncapa-
e ol an Ante. Eternity, and cheretore there must oE necesticy, be
omertims else oF a Permanent Duration, chat was Eternal wichout
seemnine; Phacno Acheist accordins to his Principles, can postibly
Si
Deans accoune oEche Original oF his omn Soul or Mind; Thac che
Baenomenon OE Motion cannot be Salved wichont an Incorporeal Prin-
aiple, presidins overthe wtiole; That the rd  n, naenas, Zhe Artif.
alus Regular, and Orderly Frame of thines, toBether wich che Harmony
 chewhole, Demonltrate an Understandins and Entendine Cause OF
ne Nortd, chac Ordered chinssFOr Ends and G0od. BCHdes, CHBF
Chere are several octier Phaenomena, boch ordinary and Extraordinary.
hich Acheists beins no may ableto satre, are torced to deny.
Erue indeed, Come oPche ancient Theilts, have chemselves alsirmed,
acchere could beno Demonstration of a Cod, whiehA Sertion oF cheirs.
dch been by ochers misunderstood into chis sense, asit chere were
Meresore no certainty ac all eo be had of cods Existence, buc onty a
Conjectural Probability; no Knom ledse or science, bur only F’aith aud
inion. Whereas che cruc meanins oF chose ancient Theists, who derii-
chatchere could bC any Demonstration ot a Cod, Was only chis, thar
he Existence oEa God couldnocbe Demonttrated a Priore, himselE be-
Ds ihe First Cause OF alI chines. Thus doch alexander aphrodisus.
his Physical Doubrs and solutions, altex he trad propounded an ArBu.
mene Cor a Cod, accordins 10 Ariltotelick Principles, trom Morion, de-
Clare timselE; i sciES n= aevees vor, 8 3d DiVEE  recors a eZ5 a nb - L. Y. c. 3.
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