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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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Matrer not NecCN. PXistent.
ut is cerrain alco, chac Nochine could Exist Necessarily OF ic SCII
Whac included Necessity os Existence ID IES OWn NaturC. FOr 10 sup.
Dole any chins co LxiCtOf it sels Necessarily, Which hach no Necessiry oF
Existence in its omn Nacure, is plainly eo suppose that Necessary Exist-
enee otit, to Come srom Norhing, Cinceit could neither procced trom
chac Thins it selE, nor y et From any chins elle. Lastly, chere is Nochine
Wrhich includes Necessity of Existence in ies very Nature and essence, bue
ouly au absolurelu Perfeet Beins. TheRetule oF aII Wrhich is, thac God
or a Pertect BcinB, doch certainly Exist, and chac chere is Nothine
else etrich Existed OF ic selE tromEternier, Neceltarily and lnde-
pendenely; but all ocherchines whacloerer derired cheir Beins trom
Im, Or Were Caused by him; Matter Or Body it selFnOE excepied.
Thac wtich hath Stagsered Come Theists here, and madle chem lo in
Elinable and prone to beliere, chac Marrer allo Existed trom Pternity
Onmade. is Parcly (as hach been already intimated) ad Ediorical Conceit.
hat becaule Nochins can be arrificially made by men, othermise chian
OUTOE ere. Existins Matrer, a5 Fouses dud Garments, Puddines, and
Eres, cheresore chere could be no other makeins ot anr chins by any
over whalsoever: chouxheven men chemselres, can produce some-
AIMS OUE OE DOPre. Existent Matter, as Coeitations aud Local Motion.
lad ihe same parcly proceedeth also, trom cerrain False Opinions
ncertained, ConcerninB Master. POr Erst lome Theists have suppo-
ed bamo cocopcaeror, an Incorporeal First Master; out oF wtrich Incor-
Poreal Masrer. Fogecher wich an Incorporeat Form, Toyned 10 it.
hey conceived che essence of Body co have been Compounded, and
Madeup. And no monder iE chele Pame Fancisul Philosophers, have
lrelier ad ded allo hereunco, chac trom chis Incorporeat Marter, by an
Incorporeal Form, vere bezorten litcevile incorporeal Qualities of B0-
G. Nou ic isnoc Conceirable, what elle Mould bemeant, by chis
incorporeal Hyle or Master, buc ouly a Mletaphysieat Notion, OE chC Po-
ntralitus or Possibilitys oE chines, respectirely co theDeier; Wtriek
secause it is indeed Eternal, and as much Dnmade 25 C0d himsclF is.
beins Norhine buc che Divine Pomer considered Passively, or the Re-
verse oF ic; cheretore in all probabilier, vere chele Philolophers (0
prone cochinte, che Physicat Master, oF this Corporcal 2 niverse, 10
have been Eternal and Unmade. Neicher was chis Incorporeal Hyle
OrMaster, a Novel Opinion, encertained ouls by Some Junior Plato-
nists, buc older chan aristorle himselF; as appearech plainly trom chele L. L. c. 6
collowine words o his inhis Metaphysictes, oi pev 3d cos vnlii rl ae- Ibus Por
A neySOV, EAVTE OEA, EaV aarON do, Some speckof the Prin-phyr. TuS
iple as Matter; mhether they suppose ihis Matrer to be Body, or to be duc re idice
ncorporeal. Buc chis Incorporeat Master in Phytolos can b0 ac.  285 ae-
Counced no becter chan a kind oF Metaphysicat Non Sense. ABnin 9. Xais5 raece
hers seem cohare beenche more prone cothinte, Matter Or Body, 10 ~c. Matoris
RorouaTaE.
have been sels. Existent and Onmade, becaule chey boch conceired Proprietates
10 DC Kealty che same chins wich space, and allo c0ok ic For grant. secundum
d, ihac space vas insinite, and Eternal, aud Consequeney Necessarilo Veteres, ha
xistent. In ansiver Wvhereunto ve reply First, Thac chousti spacesunt; Quoc
ind Distance, Bould be granced co be Positively Infinite, Or to have nosi Incorpore-
munde nor Limitsac all, as alloro have been eternal, yet accordine
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