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# Title: A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 2; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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Phe COnFeNLS.
I AWS and EAEC, a5 10 ATatter, not meer Multiply Cintities withont Decessitr. The
Coxiration in ihe Ninc of God bnt an Sont endued mith a Plastick Nature, the
Fnerperick and PRectual Principle in it. Chies Pormatrix of its oron Body the con-
And ihis Plastick Nacure, ihe Prue and tribution ofother Causes not excluded. 166
23. That, besides the Plasticke in Par-
Proper l’ace ot NTALCF, or of ihC CorpO-
reat WVorid. IVBat Maxicke is, and that ticular Animals, Formine them as so ma-
Nature mbich acteth FacalIY, acteth also ny Licle Words, there is a General
Plasticte or Artisicial Nature in thC
Maxically and Sympachecically. P. 161
19. That Nacure, thoueh it bethe Di-
Whole Corporeal Dniverse, which likevise,
accordine 10 AristorlC, is either a PAIE
VinC AEC, Or PacC, vet for al that, i5 nei-
iher a G0d nor Coddels, but a Lom anc and L. Orver Porver of a Conscions Mun
dane Soul, or else somethine dependine
Imperseet Creature, it actine Arcisicialy
and Racionalr, ne otberroise than Com-
thereon.
167
24. That no less accordine 1o Aristocle,
pounded Forms of Letters, when Printine
Coherent Philosophick Sense; nor for than Plato and SOCrateS, Our selves par-
Fnds, ihan a Sum or Flatehet in ihe hands take os Lile from the Lile ofthe llniverle,
as vell as ve do of Feat and Cold front
os a stilsul Mechanick. The Plasticle
and Veretacire Lile of Nature, IhC Lom- ihC Eleat and Cold of the D niverse. From
est of all Lives, and Luferiour 10 the Sen(i- mbence il appears, that aristorle also held
cire. A Hipher Providence, 1han that ihe Worids Animation, which is further
os ihe Plasticte Nacure, sovermine ihe Ondeniably proved. An Ansiver 10 Tvo
ibic. Ihe most considerable Dlaces in that Phi-
20. Nocrwithstandine rehieh. forasmuch losopher objected to the contrary. Lhat A-
Corporeal WV orid it sels.
as ihe Plastick Nature is a Lite, it must ristorles l’irst Immoreable MOveI mas
necds be lneorporeal. One and ihe self no Soul, but a Perfect Intellect abAract
sarse thine, havine in il an entire Modet from Macter, which he supposed to move
and Plat form of ihe WVhole, aud actine onely as a l’inal Cause, or as BCins L. OV-
ed; and besides this, a Muncane Soul
cannot be a Body. And thoneh Aristorle and Plasticle Nature 10 movethe Hleavens
upon severat Distant parts os Malter,
bimsels do no rmbere declare ihis Nature PFicienely. Neither Aristorles NatIC
10 be cither Corporeal or Incorporeal, non Mundane Soul rhe Supreme Deuly.
llorvever, thoueh there be no such Mun-
Crtrich he neither elearty doth concernine
the Racional SOuI) and bis Follovers
commonty talie it 1o be Corporeal, vet,
dane Soul, as both Plato and Ariltorle
conceived, vet may there be notmithstand-
ine, a Plasticle or Artificial Nature de
Philosophy, must il necds be otterroise. pendine upon a Flieher Incellectual Prin-
168
accordine 1othe Cenmine Principles oF That
165 ciple.
25. No Impossibility of other Partieu-
21. The Plastick Nacure beine Incor
Porcal ns esther be a LOiver Porrer lar Placticles; and thoueh it be not rea-
rodeed in Souls, mhich are also Conscions, sonable 10 tbinte every Plant, Herb and
Sensicive or Rational; or else a distinet D’ile os Grass, to have a Plastiele or Vese-
Substancial Lise by it Setf, and Interi- cacire Soul of ils oron, nor 1b0 F. Aeth 10
our Soul. That ihe Placonicts assirm be an Animal, vet may there possibly be
Both; vith Aristortes acrecable Deter- one Plasticle Artificial Nacure presidine
MinatiOn; TBat NAEurC is CIthEF PANE OF over ihC Whole TerraqueOUS OlObC, bY
ibid. which Pecetables may be severally orsa-
22. The Plasticte Nacure as 10 ihe Bo- nized and Framed, and all chines per-
a Soul, or noc wichoue SouI.
dies of Aimals, a PAIE, or LOrVeE POW- Sormed, mhich transcend the P’over of
e of their respective Souls. That ihe Forcuitons Mechani(.
26. Our Second Cndertakeins, Which
Archeus in AnimalS; 10 make which a vas 1o Shom, Nom erosty those Acheilts
Phaenomena prove a Plasticke NaEuTC Or
distinet ihine from ihe Soul, moulat be 10 (Cmho actinomledee this Arciticiat P laltiete
Nature.