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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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CHAP. V. Infinite LPopes from ihe Deiev.
che persons chemselres Punistred. But e0 Tueh as are incurable
ihe Punistment insicted on chem, is incended Por che Oood of phe
Wrhole. S0 chat ehis artribute os fustice in 60d, doch nOc 2E aII
Clastr, rith cheattribute ot coodness, it beins bue a Branch chere-
OF or particular Modificarion OE Mhe CamC. Goodnes and fustice in
Cod, are alvares complicated corether; neicher his Goodness Be-
ine Pondness, nor his fustice eruelsy; buc he beine boch 6ood in
Punistine, and fust in Remardine and Dispensine Benesits. Wherctore.
it egu beche interest oE none, chac chere Bould BC no God nOT Im
mortality; untels perhaps oF such Desperacely and Incurabir Wick.
ed persons, irho abandonins cheirerue interest ot beine 90od, have
chereupon no ocher interest non lctechem, chan Not +o be or BCCOMC
Nothine.
Tobe michout a God, isto be wichout Hope inche Worid, For A-
cheilts can have neicher Faith nor Hope, in senstess Master, and thc
Fortnisons Motions thereos. And chouph an understandins Beinx
have never (o much lenjorment ol ic PelE For che prelent, vec could
It not postibly be Happy, withone immortalisy, and Security oF THC FK
ture Continnance ThereoF. But che atheists conclude, chac chere is
Norhine Immortal, and chac alI Lise Perithesand Vanishes inco Nothing:
and consequentr also, thac evsuipoiae arbnoentor, Ilappine(s 15 S
chins, chac hach no Existence in Natmre; a meer Fiement and CBi-
maera or Idle Wiso and vain Dream O(MortalS. Wheretore it can-
noc beche interest oF Mankind, chac ehis Hy porhesis Mould Be Fruc.
evtrich ehus plainte cues oH all Hope Trom men; and leares them in
an uer Empossibility OE beins ever Happy.
Codis such a Beins, 23 il he conld be suppoled not tobe, chere is
nochine wrhich any irho are noc desperately ensaged in Wichednels.
nonot atheists chemselres, could postiblr more wist for, or Desire.
To Believe a God is co Believe che Existence oF aIl Possible 600d and
perfection in che Ulniverse; Itis to Beliere, That thines are as they
Should be. and Thac che Worid is (0 well Framed and Governed, 25
chac che WVhole Sostem chereot, conld noc Postibly hare bcen BCtter.
Por reccabilir, arisestrom che Necessity oE impersect Preewilled Beines.
lese co chemselres; and cherelore could noc by Omniporence it selE
have been exeluded; and chouph Sin Actual mighe pertaps have
Been KCepF out by Porce and Violence; vec aIl chines Compuced, ic
Was doubrless most For che 600d oC che Whole, chac ic ould not be
Thus Forcibly Hindered. There is Nochine, urtrieh cannot bercoped
For, by a Good man, Prom che Deity; Whachoever Happiness his Be-
ine is Capable of; and suchthines as Fye Bathnot seen nor Par heard, nor
ean nom enter into the Fleart of man to Conceive. Insinite Fopes lie
betoreus Crom the Existence oF a Beine Lafinitely 600d aud Poverful.
and our Oun souls immortality: and nochine can Hinder or OB.
Aruet chese Hopes, buc our omn Wickedness ot Life. ToBelieve a
Ood, and Dowell, dre rvo, che moltHopesul, Cheersul, aud comforta-
le itimes, chac postibius ean be. And co chis purpose is chac ol
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