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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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CHAD. IV.
Incorporeal Deicy. C onfuted.
istine, but al(o oFaIL Possibilities; wrtich plainly implies and suxposes che
Actual Existence oF a Being infinitely Poverful, thac conld Produce
chem. So chac che proper Object, oF Mind and Understandine, i5 2
Persect Beine, and allChe ExtenF OF itS Pover; Wrtich Pertect Bcinx
Comprehendins it sel(and che Extent of its omn Pover, Ox the Possibi
ties os all thines, is he First Original aind, oF Wwhich all other Minds
Partake. Wherelore vere there no perfect omnipotent Being, Com-
prehendins ic sels, and its omn Porver or aUlthe Possibilities of thines:
che intellisible Objects of ihe Mind and Edeas, mult hare come trom
Nochins.
Honever ic hach been alreadr proved Trom chis Principle, Nothine
Trom Nothine, that the Pomers ot sense and Onderstandine, ox the Pnti-
cies OF Soul and Mind, could nerer have Resulced, From any Modi-
fications OF Senstes Masrer Wrhatloerer. Wheretore since it is Mathema-
tically certain, chac our Humane souls and Persons, could nocPostibly
trave been Generate d out oF Marters one oFthele Tuo chines will un-
deniably sollon; Thac Ficher chex must all hare Existed OF Them-
selres Trom Eternity Onmade, or E Ise have been Created BE En dilcor, out
os an Antecedent Non-Existence, by a Persect Onderstandine Beine 2n.
made, or atleast have Derired their whole Substance From it. S0 chac ic
1s. altogether as certain, thac there is a Ood, as chat our Hlumane souls
and persons, did nor alI Existtrom Eternity Of Themselves. Aud chac
Cheremust be some Eternal Onmade Mind, hach becn already Demon-
Eraced also, trom che Came Principle, Nothine ont of Nothine. ThuS
have We abundanely confuted, ehie second atheistick argumentation,
chat chere can Deno Omnipotence nor Divine Creation, becaule Nothine
ean be Made ont of Nothine; e havine plainly emed thac chis very
Principle, in che Tre Sense chiereot, aftordecti a Demonstration For
phecontrals.
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He six Follomine atheistick Areumentations, drivine al et
rvo chines, First, che Disprovins oF au incorporeal, and ther
Corporeat Deity: (From Boch wrhich, e Aes conceire il
mulcFollon oE necestiey, thac ehere can l ehe ac al1) we MalI cakC
heul all together, and in ordexto the ConfutatION OE FHCM, PEFLONH
chele Three ThinSS. FirH, Wve MaII Ansiver che Atheistick aren
ions, asainst an Incorporeal Deiry, (concained in EdC Le a LourB
seads.) Secondly, ine Mallstiem, chac srom the rery Principles ol
ene atheistick corporealism, (as reprelenced in che Fisth aud sixth
reads) Incorporeal Substance is Demonstrable. L s Lal CHCKC
preumentations also, axaint a Corporeat Deity, (in the Seventh anc
beins undeniabiy Incorporeal substance, ele LWotollonins atheistict
eh dections) prode aelher inscenificant.
Ne begin wich ene st O Chele, Lolter che invalidisy oF che
heistick areumentations, axain an Incorporeal Deity. Ic hach been
alreadis