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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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C HA P. V. Wortd Oncapable of Pternity.
made Sooner, since ihis Goodnes oF God was withour Date, anet
Com Pverlactins. Buc ehis Question may be takcen in ero disterent
Sentes, Ficher, Why as not ihe morid from Pternity, as Cod and his
Goodness are Eternal? Or else Secondly, Is the Worid could not be frone
Eternity, vet notwithstandine Wrhy vas it not sooner, butso lately made E
In boch irhich Queries che Atomick Atheists cakce it For Granced, thac
ihe Syltem oF cheWorid mas noc trom Eterniey, buc had a begin-
ning. Now velar, Thac cheRealon whr che world mas noc Made
Trom Eternity, WaS nOF FrOm any Defect oE Goodness in theDivine
Will but becanse chere is an absolute impossibiliry in che ching ic selE;
Or because he Necessity and Incapacisy ot lueh an Emperseet Beine hin-
dered. For we mustcontels, that For our parts, meare pronetobe-
liere, Thaccould che morid harebeen trom lternier, it Bould cer-
tainly have been (0. And just thus does Philoponus, in his Confuta-
tionot Proclus his Aroumens Cor che WVorIdsEternicy, declare him
TelF. and no ocherwise. Kai iueis à eg pn Eveet Y nbC pa aictor Vnoli dt- P. 4.
HEVBI, 37 2d Evat = Dedv ci el aza dor à paeS Eda, 32 àderdar d dpuse.
es avr narmoesuer devaEcoS. aMa jin deradas aici Eivat  ubC
pos di avri TW 2S quouers pbo VnEn DEuEda. Our selves also suppo-
sine, the morid not to have been Fternal, do neither ascribe this to anv
Desect either os Codness orof Pover in the Deity, but only to the Impols-
bilitu of the Thine it sels. Wrhere in che Collorins mords, he sires a
Tvo Fold AcconnEoF chis impossibilisy, OF che worids Pterniey, dri 2
id cndeor nar Ereeydaer inosivai, i desirutor Erat, advrator iv.  drt
orraidton Eiraes ZS nOISIII ro qoVEVOV aboV Su Exd. L’irst because, There can
be nothine actually insinite, and pet Run throneh, as aIl ihe Past Durari-
on of the Worid hathbeen; and Secondly, because that whichis Made or
broneht into Beine by anoiher, as a distinet thine (rom it, cannot be Co-
Eternal mithits Maker. Where it is probable, chac Philoponus beine
a Christian, detigned noc to oppole che Eternal Generation oF the Son
of Cod, buc ouly co asfere, chac Nochins which ras properly Made
Or created by Cod, and nochine irtrich was noc ic selE God, could bc
Trom Eternity, or wichout Bepinninr. And now we scc, Ho chose
Atheistick Exceptions against che Novity oC che Divine Creation, as il
Cod mult cheresore cicher have slept from Eternity, Or elle have at
lenoh contracted a sariery oF his Former solitnde, and thelitce; do
OE themsetres quice ranith inco Nochins. Buc chen as tothe Second
sense oEthe Guestion, Why ihe Worid thoueh it conld not possibly be fron
Eternity, pet mas no sooner, but so lately made? We (ay, chac ehis is an
absurd Question; boch because Zime was made cogecher wich ehe
Worid, and ehere as no sooneror Later, belore Time; aud allo be-
cause, Whacsoerer had a beginnine, must oF neceltitr be once but
a Day OId. Wheretore che World could noc postibly have been (0
Made by God intime, aS noc co be oncc, but Five or Six Thousand
rears Old, and nomore; asnom it is.
And as Tor che Third and L ast Query; Hom God contd move and
command the Malter of ihe whole WoridE especially I5 Incorporeat ?
Ne Reply; PirH, Thac all ocher chines beins derived from Cod a5
Cheir onty Founeain and Original, and P. Sencially dependins on him
vho by his absoluse Porver allo. could Annihilate What (oeverhe Crea-
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