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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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Other Demonstrations
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but AbTurd. Wheresore chere is Comething more co be Inferred
Trom the NecelEs of Existence included in che Idca OF A Pertect BC
ins chan (o, irhich can be nochine else buc rhis, chat it absolutely and
actnallu Is. Moreorer no Theilts can Be able to prove that God or 2
Persect Beine (supposcd by them to Exist) mistuc noc Ilappen b7
Chance onty +o BC; il trom the Necessit ot Existence included in
the idea of God; it cannot be inferred chat he could noc But BC.
Notmichstandins irhich, here is no endeavour, (asis pretended) 10
provethe Pxiltence ot a God or Perfect Beine, A Priori neither, Or
trom any Necessary cause antecedent; but only From that Necessit
ertich is included michin ie selF, or is concomitant and concurrent
vith ic3 the Necesserr OF ils omn perfect Nature. And now ve BaIL
learethe Incellisent and Impartial Reader, to make his omn Jude-
ment concernine the Forementioned Carretian Argument Por a Deity,
drauntrom its idea, osincludinq Necessity os Existence in ie, chat there-
fore Et Is) Whether it be meerty sophisticat, or hach Comechins ol
Solidisu and Realisy in ic. Flomerer it is not very Probable, chac many
Atheists, will be convinced chereby, buc thac chey will rather be
ready cosar, that ehis is no Probation at aIl oF a Deiey, bue ouly an
affirmation oE chethine in Dispure, and a meer Beceine oF thc Qne-
stion; thac cheretore GodEs, Because he Is, Or Cannot But be.
WhereFore we Ball endeavour, to make out un dreument, or De-
monstration, Cor the Existence of a Cod, Trom his Idea, as includine Ne-
cessaro Existence init, Lome other maxo. And Fir(, Wwe BaII make an
ONer comards ic in this manner. Though ic rill noc follon Pronn
hence, becaule we can Frame an Idea oF any thinq in our minds, thac
theretore Tuch a thins RcaIly Pxisteth; vet nevercheless, Whatloever
We can Prame an Edea OE, Implyins no manner ol Contradiction in Ils
Conception, we may certainly conclude thus much oF it, chac suCH =
thino ivaS nOL Impossible to be; there being nochine co us impossible
but iohac is Contradictions and Repuenant eo Concextion. Nou chc
Ideq of Cod ora Perfect Beine, can Tmply no manner oF contradiction
in ic, because it is onlr the Idea OF such a chins astrath aIL Possible anc
Conceivable Perrections in it 3 chatis, aIl Persections Wrhich are neicher
Contradictions in chemselves, nOT tO One anOther. And they Who
Wwillnot allon oP chis Consequence, From che Ideaof à Porfect Beins.
includins Necessit of Existence inic, chac ic doch cheretore actnalls
Exist, vet cannot deny, buc chat this at least will FOIIOW, TrON
ies implying no manner oE Contradiction in ic, that ie is ERCTCFOTE 
hins Possible, Ox nOE impossible CO BC. FOr thus much beine true ob
allocher contineent thines, Whose Idea impliech no contradiction
thac chey are theretore Possible; ic must necds be granted or chat-
Whose very idea and Essenee containeth a Necelsity of Existence in its
as the Essence oF nochins else but a Perfect Beine doct. And chis is
thCFirCSceP, that wenon makre in may oF Argumentation, Prom che
idea oF 60d or a perfect Beine, havins nochins contradictious in I-
Thac cheretore God is at lcaltPossible, Or nO ay impossible tohaVe
been. In the next place as this parricular Idea oF chac Wrhiet is Possi
ble includeth Necessity of Existence in iC; Trom chele Zwo thines pui
cosether at lealt, ihc Possibility oF suet a Beins, and its Necessary Ex
isterict