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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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356. The AbI. Impossibiliey of Atheilm; BOOK I.
no Life, nor Znderstandine at sIl in the Clniverse, (o may there bc
nonc osain. They who deny a Cod, because rhere can bC nOCre-
ative Pover belongine co any Thins, do chemlelres notmichstandine
actribute 10 Marrer (choush a meer Passive, Sluceist, and 2 nactive
china) a Creative Pover oE Thines Substantial, (a5 Hlumane Souls and
Persona-ities) Out OF Nothins. And thus is thac P’ormidable ArgUI-
enE OF che Atheists, thac chere con be no Cod, because Noching can
Be made out oF Nochins; not only proved io be Fal(e, buc al(o Re-
corted upon chese Acheiltschemselves, chey bringins all chings BCHdes
Senstess andVnqualisied Matter, Out oF Nothins.
Wehare non declared, First, in what sense this Proposcion is un-
quectionably True, thac Nochins ean be Made ont OF NothinS, OF COME
rom Nothine, viz. Cansally, That Nochins which betore was NOt,
conld altermard beMade without a cause, and a Suffieient Canse. Or
more parriculariy, chese Threc Ways; Fir(L, chac Nochine mhich besore mas
Not could astermard bebrouxhe into Beine by It sels, Or WWithOUEAn Fff
cient Canse. SecondIr, that Norhine wbich once was Not, Cou ld BC Made Or
Produced Ffficient lyby any ching, rhich Bad noc ac leact Egnal Perfection
in ic and a sufficient active or Productive Pover; and Conseguenet
thac no Neu Substanct can be Made, buc by à P’erfect Berne. Whriete
only is Substantialls Emanarive. Thirdly and LastIY, chac wrhem
thinos are Made OuEOF Pre. Existine Warer, as in Arciticial Producti
Ons, and Natural Generations, there can be nonem Real entity Pro
duced, buc onty different Modifications, ot Whac belore substantial
Wvas; the Material Cause as Tuch, Ffficienrly Produeinq Noching. And
ehus mas ehis Axiom Understood by Cicero, Thac Nochins could
De Made ont of Nothine, viz. Cansally; in his B0OK De Fato, WhereHC
reprehendeth Epicurus For endcavourins c0 avoid Pate aud EO FAa
blim Liberty of Will, by ehac Absurd FisMenE, OF Atoms Declinins
Vncertainty trom ihe Perpendicular. Nec cum haec ita sint, est causa–
cur Exicurus Fatum extimeseat, es ab atomis petat praesidium, easque De
via deducat; e uno tempore suscipiat res duas nenodabiles, Unam ut
sine Causa frat aliquid, ex quo existet, ut De Wihilo quippiam fiat; quod
nec ipsi, nec eniguam Physico placet. Nor is there for althat, any Rea
son, nhy E picurus Bould beso much afraid of Fate, and seck Refuee in
atoms, he supposine them in their Insinite Descents, to Decline Dncer-
tainty from the l’erpendicular, and layins this as a Fonndation for Liber.
ty of Will: whereby he plunged himsels at once, into Tuo inextricable
difficulties, the First mhereof mas, the supposine of Somethine 10 be made
wirhont a Cause or hichis allone, ont of Nothine; a thine that will
neither be alloved by any Physiologer, nor contd Lpicurus himsels be
Pleased or Satissied theremith. The realon Wrhereor is, because it was
a Fundamental Principle OE ehc alomick Philosophy, That Nothine, (in
ehis sen(C) conta be Made ont of Nothine. Moreover me have in che
next place declared, in wtiac other sense, this Propoltion, that Nothine
can be Made ont os Norhins, is False, namely when chis out os. Vothine:
IS BOL Lakcen Causally. but (0 es to tenitie the Terminus From mhich:
chac Nochine can BCMade, Out oF an antecedent Non. Existence:
FhaEMO ReaL Fntisy Or Substance Wrhich beFore Was nOc, could by any
Pover whacsoerer be ascermards broughe into beins: Or ThacNO.
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