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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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No Incerest in Atheilm.
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ced; he mult necdshave a Desporick Pomer over all; ond every chins
erhracsoever be Naturalty subject and Obsequious eo him. And Fince
no Body can postibly Nove it sels, chac which tirst moved Marser, must
OF necestier De Incorporeat; nor could it move it by Local Morion,
38 one BOdy moves anOtHeF, Or aS Fneines and Machines move, by
Truscon or Pulsion, cher beine belore moved, but must do it by anocher
Kind oF action, uch aS is HOC Local Morion, nOr Heserocinesle, but Au-
rocinesse; chac is, by Cogitarion. Wheretore chat Conceit oF thC A.
theists, Chat an Incorporeal Deisr conld noc postibly move che Matier
oF che Worid, because ic would run chrouph ic, and couid nOE
Fasten or lay hold chereupOn; is ABTrd, Because chis moves MaLteF
noc Acchanically, but vitally, and by cocitation ouly. And chat a
Coeitative Beins aS Such, hacha Natural Imperium over Matser and
Pover OE Movinsit wichout any ensines or Machines, is unquesti-
onably certain, even from ouroun souls; irtich move our Bodies
and Command chem every way meerly by Will and Thoveht. And
a Persect Minci, prCSIding OVeT FhCMAECF OF thc Whole worid, could
much more irrelistiblr, and wich Infinitely more case, movethe Wrhole
Corporeat 2 niverse, mecely byWill and Cogitation; chen We can Oux
Bodies.
THC LaC Fead of arheistick areumentation, is Nom Interest:
And Firs, ehe Atheists vould perswade, chac ic isthe interest of
mankind inGeneral, and of every particular person, that there sould
beno Cod, ihat is, no Beine Insinitely Poversul, that hath no LaW
but ils orn Will; and therefore may puniss whom he pleases Eternally
aster Death.
Po which our FirSERepIY iS; ThaLiF there bea God, and Souls
beImmorcal, chen is ic noc any mans Thinkcing ochermise, ihac will
alcer che Case, nor aftord ihe arheists any Relict against chose two
Imagined Evils OF cheirS. For Things are sullen, aud will bC aS
ehey arc, whac ever we Think chem, or Wimchem tobC: and
men will at laR discover cheir PrrOur, Wrhen perhaps it may be
100 lacc. Wistine is no Provine; aud cherelore chis atheistick Ar-
cument, Crom lacerest, isno Argumene at aIl against che Existence oF
a Cod, it beins nochins buc che isnorant rict, and vain detire OFBe-
Sorted Atheists.
In chenext place chis Wissos Atheists, is allogether Counded, uxon
aMistahen Notion OC God almiehey 100, Thache is nochins but Ar-
bitrary Will omnipotent; Wrhrich indeed is noc che most Desirable
ching. Buc as ichach been osten declared, che W ill os God is he Will
OE Goodnes, Justice and Wisdom ic (elE Omnipotent. Elis Will is nOE
meex WilI, Tuch astach no ocher Reason bchdes it TelF; but it is Lau,
Equity and Chancery; it is che rd deor, Or Oneht it sels, Decrecins,
Willins, and Acting. Neicher does God Punistr any, out ot a de-
lixhe in Punictimene, or in che Pvil and SufTerins OF FhC PerIOnS PU-
nichedi buc cochose wvho are nOL aviatoi, altosether incurable, d’nn
ialecta, his Punistoment is Physick, in order to cheir recovery and a-
mendent; C0 chac chc sourse and Fonntain cherCOF is Coodness 10
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