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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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Lhe COnEeHES.
Zbat thC FarEH senI Forth ArCBIS of MIIK after ( STaTC-CTaTE or COrCnABC: nor vet have becx
ihose ber Bew-bOrH InFanES and NursineS; able, 10 possess ibe Minds of men everp. robere
Confured by Critolaus in Philo. Another Pre.
carions Supposition or Fiement os LpicuruS:
Tbat ibenno immoderace Heats nor Colds, nor
any blustering Nt inds. Anaximander swayos Sal.
vins ibis Disticuler; That Men vere first gene-
rated and nouristred in the bellies of l’istres, sill
able to sist for themselves; and iben disçorged
upon dry land. Acheilts svallom any thine ra
ther ibena 60d.
PaSC688, 689
Wherefore here beine Dignus Vindice NO.
dus a Oeds dro unzariis, Reasonably introduced,
in ihe Molaick Cabbala, 1o lolve ibe same. I1
appearine from all Cireumstances put tocetber.
That ebis mhole Phaenomenon surpasses, not one
Ir ibe Mechanick, but also ihe Plasticke Pou
ers; there beine much of Discretion rhereim.
Torvever, not denied, but tbat ihe Ministery es
Spirits (Created before Man, and otber JCr
with such a constant Arve and Dread of an In-
vilible Noching. Zbe WN ortd vould lone since
bave dscovered ibis Cheac, and suspected a
Ptot upon their Liberer, in ehe riction oF a
Cod; et least Covernours themselves vould
have understood it; many of rwhich notroith-
standine as much aved wiih ihe Pear of ihis In-
visible Noching as any Orbers. Orher Cheats
and Juoples, nhen once Delecied no loncer Pra-
Eised. But Kelieion nom as much in Credit as
ever, thoueh so lons sinee Decried by Acheills,
for a Policical CheaC. ZBat Christianiey, a
Kelicion L’ounded in no Hlumane Polier, pre-
vailed over ihe Crate and Poveros allCivilISo-
vereiers, and Conquered ihe Persecucine Worid,
by susferine Deaths and Marrordoms. This Pre-
senisied by rhe Prophecicke Spiric. PagC691,
692
Hnd ihe Idea of G0d, Been an Arbitrarious
reltrial AnimalS) mieht be bere made use of.
As in PIaCO, afier the Creacion of Imniorcal Pismene, nos conceivable, horo men Bould have
universaliy aereed in ihe same, and tbe MIIri-
Souls, bo the Supreme G0d, the Pramine es
Mortal Bodies is commilted 1o funior Gods. butes belongine herenmo: (This Areument used
689600 by SCxIIS:) Nor ihat Civit Sovereiens them
Furthermore Atheists no more able 1o Salve selves sroutd so universally have sumped in it
692 69
ehat ordinary Phaenomenon, of ihe Conterva-
Purthermore: Not Conceivable, hom ibu
tion oF Species, by ihe Disserence of Sexes, and
a due Proportion of Number, Kept up berween Thouehe or Idea of a Cod srould bave been l’or-
Males and Females. Pere a Providence also,
med byany had it beenihe Ideaot Noching. Ih0
Superticialnels oF Acheils, in Pretendine, 1hAt
Superiour as well eo she Plastick, as Mechanict
Nature.
ibid. Policicians, by relline men os Such a ibine, put
Lastr. Orber PhanOmena, as RCaI, sboueh ihe Idea intorbeir Minds. No NocionS, or Idea S,
not ptiylical; which atheists cannot possiblo
Salve, and theresore de commonty Deny; as of
put into mens minds by Words, but onely tho
Phancasins oEche Sounds. Thonel alt L carnine
Nacura) Justice er Honesr, and Obligacion; Be nor Remembrance; ver is all Humane Yea
ihe Foundarion os Policicks, and ihe Machema-
ricles of Relision. And of Liberey of W ill,
noc onetu Tbar of Foreuicous SelF. decermination,
ching, bus Maieuricalor ObRecricious; Not 1hc
Filline oF che Soul as a Vesset, by Pourine into
it from without: hut ihe Kinclins oE ic from
virhin. Words sienisie norhine sohim ihAt Can-
when an egual F. lisibiliey os Objects; but also
That which makes men deserve Commendation, not raise up mirbin himsels ibe NOciOnS, ot
IdcaS, correspondent ro them. Horrever ihe Vis-
and Blame. These not commenty distinguistred,
a ibcy Oueht. Ppicurus bis endeavour 1o Salve
Liberer ot WilI from Atoms Declinins Vncc-
Reulrystill remains; Hor Scaces- men themselves.
or the first Invencer of ihis Cheat, contd have
taintu from the Perpendicular, meer Madness framed any Nocion at all of a Non. Enciey.
693,691
and FrenZY.
690,691
And nor have me already Preventively Con-
futed ihe Third Acheistick Pretence, 10 Salve
ihe Phanomenon DE Theilm, fromthe Fiction
and Impolture of Politicians; me havine pro-
ved That Philolophr, and ibe true Knowlede
OECauses, inferre the Existence os a Cod. Never-
theless this so behere furrber Anlivered. 691
Tbat Scaces- men and Politicians contd not
have made such use of Relisions as sometimes
therbave done, bad it been a meer Cheac and
Fismene of sbeir oon. Civit Sovereiens in ali
ohe distant places of the Worid, contd not have
so universaliy conspired, in ihis one Piece os
Dere ihe Acheists Prerend, That ehere is a
Feignins Porver in ihe Soul, hereby it can mahe
Ideas and Concepcions of Non-Encicies; a5 os
a GoIden MouncaIn, Or a CCnTAUT: and 1B1F
by rbis, an Idea os Codmieht be framed ihoueh
ibere be no such Thing. Ansiver; Thac all ihe
Feignins Pover of ihe Sout, consisteth oncly in
Compoundins Idea s ofrhines that Rcally Lxist
Apart, but not in that Conjunction. Jhe Mina
cannot matie any Dew Concepcire Cogicacion.
which rs not Before; as the Painter or Limnee
cannot Peien ColourS. Moreover the mholeof ihesc
Ficticious Idca S, thouxh it have no Actual, yet
1st