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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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chinse which chose Philo(ophers vere extremely abhorrent trom, a
chintins ic Incongruous, chât souls Wrhich are in Order of. Nature, Se-
nior to Bodies, Mould be in Order of Time, Juniors tothem; a5 al(0
noc Realonable, that Divine Creation, (as it vere Proltitured) ould
wichour end, perpetuallr atcend and mait upon Natura Generations.
und be incermine led wich them.
But as Cor ehis Prae. Existence oF Souls, we have already declared
our omn sense concernins it, in che Firit Chapter. Though WE
connor deny, buc chacbesides origen, sereral octiers oF che Ancient
lachera, belore che Fitch Couneil, seem cither to have Espoused it, Ox
at least ro have had a Farour and kindness For ic; infomuch that SC.
Anstine him(clF, is Cometimes Stasserins in chis Poinr, and chinks it 10
bea Creat Secret, Whether mens Souls Pxisted betore cheir Generati
ons orno; and lome where concludes it tobea matter of indisseren-
Wherein erery one may have, his Liberes oC opinins, cicher way
uhoue oftencc. Wheretore all chat can be certainly actirmed in chis
dle, i5, thac Humane Souls could not postibly De Generated out ot
Marter, but vere some time or ocher created by Ood AImishEy, OuE
Al Norhine Prae. Existine, cither In Generations or Betore them. L. act-
V, as For Bruce Animals, emust consess, chat IE chey benOL meex
Machines or antomata, as Tome seem inclinable 1o beliere, but
Conscions and Thinkins Boines, chentrom che Came Principle OF Rea-
n, ic will sitemise Follou, thac cher cannot be Generated out oF
Maner neicher, and cheretore must be Derived trom che Fountaine
al rise, and Created out os Nothine by him: Who since he can, as
caliy annihilate, as create; and doesallFor cheBest; no manneed
l alltorrouble himsel, abouc cheir Permanency, or immortality.
Audnon have meviven, a FuII and Particular ACCOUNE, OF all che
beveral senses, wherem chis axiom must be ackenom ledsed to be Un-
deniiably Truc. Thac Nothine can possibly be Made ont of Notbine, OX
Eome srom Nothine; namely chese Three. First, Thac Nothine which
bas Not could ever brine it sels into Beine, Or Efficiently Produce it sels.
De ThacNorhine ean possibly be Made, rithout an Efficient Canse. Se-
Condiy, chat Nothine which vas Nos, conld be Produced or bronght in-
loBeins, by any other efficient Canse, then such, as hath at least, Equal
Perfection in ilt, and à sufficient active or Productive Pover. For il
oy chine mere made by chac, irtich hach not Equal Perfection, then
nust (0 much oF chc F. Fec as Transcendeth chc Caule, be indecd
Mlade mithont a Canse, (Cncc, Nothins ean Civemhat it hath not) Ox bc
ansed by ic self, or by Nochins. Axain, 10 suppose a chins to BC
roduced by chat whicti hach no sufficient Productive Pover, is Real.
Y10 suppose it allo, eo be Produced Erom Et sels without a cause, Or
om Nochine. Where ic is ackenow ledsed by us, Thacno Natural.
persect, Created Beins, Can Create, Or Fmanatively Produce, 2 New
Substance wtich was noc Betore, and sive it, its Whole Beine. Hither-
Oische Axiom Verisied in Respect oF che efficient cause. Bur in che
hird Place, it is al(o True, in respect oF che Material litcewile. NOt
hoc Norhine conld Possibly be ever Made, by auy Poer whacloever.
lc ODly OUL OE Pre Existent Matter; and Conteguenely, chae Mac.