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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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Deainst Divine Creation.
ihe Dull Baeotick Air had tOO mucH FHCCE UPOn hiM. HOIEVePneI
cher Plutarch nor che sroicks, as we conceire, ore For this eo beac.
counced absolure aud Downrieht atheists, but ouly imperfect, Mnnerel.
und spurions Theists. And cherelore vere Atheilts nerer (0 much a-
bleco prore, thac there conld beno creation out ol Nochins Prie
Existine, which chey cannot ac all do, yet mould noc this overchron
Theism in general, chere beins a Laritude cherein. Nevertheless ic
Will undeniably appear, From Whac Mall Follon, chat chole AnCienE
Halicks and eythaeoricks, were l0 Far From incendins here any suet
chins, 1o deduce alL ThinGS OUL OF MatFCF, cither WiCHOUE, Or Wich a
Cod; as thac chey plainly desiened che very Contrary; vaniely 10
prove chac nO Nem Real Entity could be Made Out OF Matter, and
Particulariy chat souls could not De Generated out orche Camez whict
pheretore ot necectur, must, accordins 1othem, hare anortier Di-
vineoriginal, and be Made by God, ROE OUFOE Mutter, DUE OUF OF No-
ibins Prae. Existins: Cince ic could noc be supposed by any, chac alt
Souls F xisted Of Themselves Trom Eternity Vnmade. Aud indecc ali
chole Pasan Philosophers who alTerred the Incorporiety oF Souls, mult OF
necestiy in like manner, suppose chem nocto harebeen Made, out
DE Prae Existins Matter, buc by 60d out os Nothing. Plutarch beins
buly here co be excepted, by reason ot a certain odd Hypothesis
lotich he had, thac was peculiariy his own; oF a Third Principle, be-
lides Cod and Master, a Disorderly Soul, or Fvil Demon Self. Existent.
otio cheretore scems to hare supposed all Particular Humane Souls.
Cotare been made, ncicher Out OF NothinS, HOT VCt OUE OE Malter OF BO-
de Prae. Existine, buE OuL OF a certain stranse commixture, oF che Sub.
Tance oE chat E vil soul, and Ood, blended together: upon whietu
decount, doesteattiem souls eo be, noc (0 much éejoy a5 pre  DES, nOL
mvueh, the mork of Cod, a5 a Part os him. And noir let auy onc
sudee, Whether uxon Plutarch S ACCOURE, there BC NOLy et Further
ealon, eo complain oF chis Baeorick air. Wheretore we conclude.
Mac chiose old Physsologers in aristorle, who insilted so much uxon thac
Prineiple, TBaE nO Real Entity couid De Made Or Generated OuE
 Noihine, acted ouly as Phystologers cherein, and not as Theologers Ox
aleraphysicians, cher nOL OppOlIne a Divine Creation OUE OF Nothine
rae Existing, but only contendins thatno Nem Entisy could be made
Duc oE Matier, and chac in Natural Generations and Corruptions there
Wasno Creation ox annihilation oF any chins.
But What the erue scope and meanine oEthese Physsolosers indeed
as, Will more plainly axpear, srom chat IIse or Improvement, Wrhict
chemselves made oF this Philosophick Principle, and chis Was Zwofold.
or First, Itis cercain chat uxon chis Foundation, cher aIl OF chem
endearouredco Establict, a Peculiar kind oF Physolosy; aud Tome a-
omoloey or octer, cicher an Homaeomery, or au Anomeomeri, a Similar
Dissimitar atomoloey. For anaxaeoras lookeins uxon chis Maxim
ihe Ttalick Philosophers, Thac Nochins could be Physically made our
Nohins, Or no Real Entity Generated Or Corrupted, as an Clr
doubred Principle of Rcason, aud beins allo not able to Conceiveo
herwise, OE the Forms and Gnalities OF Bodies chan Chat chey Vere
al Entuies. dittinde trom ihe substance os Matrer, Or ils Modisica
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