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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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H A P. IV.
ACereainty of Somethine
Mind, ould De able to knom Certainly; chac Two and Two malee
Four; that P. qualS added eo E quaIs will make R. qualS; Chat a WVHOIO
Is greater chan the ParE; and ehe Caule beforeche P Hect; and chac
nochins can be Made without a Cause; and such like ocher
Common Notions, Wtrich are ehe Principles trom Whence all their
Hnomledge is derived. And indeed vere Rational Creatures, never
able cobe certain oF anx such chins as this ac all; Wrhac mould cheit
Lise bebuFa meer Dream ox Shaddome and chemselves but a Ridien-
tous and Pompous Piece OF Phancaltick Vanity EBesdes it isno may
Congruous cochink, chat Cod Almistuey Mould make Rational Crea-
tures (oa5 to be in an veter impossibility, oE ever accainine to any cer
tainty oF his omn Existence; Or oF havins more chan an Hypothetical
Assurance thereOF, Is our Faculties be True Certrich portibly may be o
chermise,) then isthere a Ood. Wesall conclude chis Discourse a-
Samlethe Cartestan Scepticism, wichthat oF Orisens, movor S dvrcor
Bebaor 6s, Knomledee is the onty thins in the Worid, which crea-
tures bave, that is in ils oun Nature firm; chey havins here Comechine
OE Cerrainty, but no Where cIPe.
Wheretore mehavins nou, chat which archimedes required, Some
um Oround and Footins coltand uxon, such a certainty of Truth in
Our Common Norions, as Fhat they connot. Possibly be Fal(e; wichout
ohiieh nochins at all could beproved by Reason; we Thall in thenexe
Place endearour, noc tosalce or dissecele aur chins chereby; (irticte
as ihe Cndertakins OF chat Oeometrician) buc eo Contirm and
llablim che Truth ot OodS Existence, and that trom the very Idea ot
um; tiicherto madc good and desended, againt all chC ANaULES OF
Acheists.
UE is well Hnonn, chat Cartessus hath lately made a Pretence to do
lis, wirh Mathematical Fvidence and Certainty, and he dispatehes
he butiness bricAy ascer chis ManVET; God Or à Perfect Beine, includ
n Necessarus Existence in his very idea; and theretore he lS. BUE
Chouxh he inventor oF chis ArpumenE, or rather the Reviver OF thac
itiich hadt been betore uled by some Scholastickes, astirmeth it to be
Cood a Demonstration, For the Existence OF a Cod, trom Eis Idea, 25
chac in Geometry, For a Friansles havins Threc Aneles equal to Two
Cixhris trom che Idea ofa Trianele; vet reverchelels ic is certain, tHac
Yonemeans or ocher, this Argument hach nor hitherto proved (0
ortunate and Successtul, chere beins many who cannot be made
calible oE any Eficacy chercin, and noc a tem who C ondemn it
Cor ameer sophism. As For our selves, re neirher have ans mind, 10
UaErEL WITh OTHETMENS ATGUMENES Pro DeO, nOT vet vould we be
houxhe, eo lay Aress in chis Cause, uxon any chins erhich is not every
vay Solid and Substancial. Wheretore e Mallhere endeavour, to
et donn the ClEmoCE chat Postibly vo can, boch Against chis ArgU-
mene, and For it, Impartially and Candidly; and chen when ve have
lone, leave che incellixent Readers, eo make their omn Judxemene
concernins cheSame.
Ascinst it  Cuo alite Pu: Beeguse we can Frame an idea