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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 Contetes.
Creared, Somerime or other, by the Deiry; as (Fxistence,) as For m 1o Create a ThoueHC, or to
vell as tbe Matter of iheir Bodies vas. PaSC MOvC a Fineer, or for thCSun to Pend OUE RaYS.
745 Por an Imperteet Substance rwbich once W. s Not
That all these Three Forementioned Parrieu- 10 be brouxhe into Beine by God, ihis not Impo-
dars whereinit is Frue, that Nochine can Pos-
sible, in any of rhe Porementioned Sen(es. Ile
sibly come trom Nochins, are reducible to havine not onely intinicels Greater Pertection
ehis One Generall Propolition, That Nochine but also Sufticiene Productive or Fmanacive
can be Caused by Nochine; mhich ill no Porer. Truc, Tbat Intinice Polver cannot doc
vay class withihe Divine Omnipotence or Crea. sbines in ibeir oron Nature Impostible; BHL
tive Dover as allBe semed afterwards: but Norhine tbus Impostible, but rrhat Concradie-
Confirm tte same. Burthose same mords, NO- cious: and sbouph a Concradiction for anx thine.
ching out of Nochine, may carry another Sense; at ihe samerime, 10 BC aud Not BC; Vet none de
whenthat iE in orrur, Out ot Nochins, is not
all. for an imperfect Beins, (rbich is in ils
taben Causally, but onely eo sienisy ihe Terminus Nature Concingent 2o PXillence) aster it bad
a Ouo, ihe Term From ertrich, or on Antece. Not Been, to BC. W’herefore since the matitue of
dene NonLxiltence: and iben ibe meanine a Subctance so Be, rrbich WWas not BesorC, is no
thereos will be That Nochine wbich besore was vay Concradictious, nor consequenty, in ils oron
NNoc contd afrerwards, by any Poer mbassoever. Nature Impostible; ie must necds be on Object
be bronebt into Being. And this the Senle of ot Pertect l’orver.
ihe Democricick and Epicurean Objectors; viz.
PaBC 746, 748
Fursbermore, 15 1o RcaII Kneiey or Subllance,
That no RCaII EncieY can Be Made, or Broneb contd possibly be bronebe ont of Non-LXIllence
out of Non. Fxiltence into Beins; and therefore into Beinz: iben must ihe Reason berces be, Be-
1ho Creative Pover of Theists, an Impossibi- cause no Substance ean Derive iis Wlole Beius
lier.
ibid. From another Subllance. But from bence, it rould
Our SecondUndertakine, in may of Ansivor follor, Thas whassoever is SubllaneialI, did noc
Bercunto; Z0 shem That Norhins OuC OE NO. onely Fxilt from Pternier, but also OF IC Sell,
chine in ihis sense, is Palse; as also That, vere (Independensty npon any thine else. Wt bereus, P’irst-
Et True, vet it vould mate no more acoinst The-
ZhC PrR. Pterniey of TempOray BCiMBS, NoI a-
ilin, eben it doib aeainst Acheism; and ibere- orecable 1o Reason: and 1ben, 20 suppose 1n
Pore ouxhe not 10 beused by acheiAs, as an Ar- pertect Substances, 10 have Lxilled OF Them-
eument acainst a GOd. IF1bis Vniversally True,
selres and Necessariis, is 1o suppose Somechine
That Nochine at aII erhich Once aS NOC, contd co come From Nochine, inshe impossible sense.
ever be brouxhe into Beine, iben contdebere be they bavine no Necessary ScIP. Pxiltence in thetr
noMaleina nor Caulins at all no Mocion Nor Nature. As they robo assirm, all Substance t0be
Action, Mucation or Generacion. But our selves BodY, and no Body 10 be abte 10 Move ic Sel,
have a Porver of Producine Neu Cogitation in thoueh supposine Morion to have been from Lcer-
our Mincs and Ne Mocion in our Bodies. nier; vet make this Motion eo Come Troin NO-
Et Berefore RCHeills forced to restrain this Propo-
Sition, 10 Substancia IIS onelv. And bere some De-
ceived with ihe Equivocation, in ibis is un orrar,
OutoF Wochine; which mayberaten eiiher Cau-
CalIy, or else 1o senify ihe Term From Which,
that is, Prom an Ancecedene Non-Lxiltence;
Iher confoundine boih theserocetber; whereosibe
PirH onelr PruC, the L acteF PaI(C. ACaIn, O.
ibers Scaggered with the Plaulibilier of ibis
Propesition; Parrly, because no arciticial chine
(M a House or Garment) ean bemade by Nen
but ont oF Pra FXistine Macter; and PariIy,
chins, or be Caused by Noching. WV Bas in its
Nature Concingeney Poltible, 10 BC, or Not BC
conta nor Exilt OFICSeIE; bnt must Derive itc
Beins From Somethine etse, bich Neceltarily
Exiltech. Placos Distinction Theresore, berroixt
Prokinds of Subllances, multnecds beadmit-
ted, Thac irtrich alirays IS, and WVaS never
Made; and, Thac erhich is Made, or lad a BC.
Binnine.
Casity, Ys ehis True, 1Bat No Substance Mahe-
able or Producible; it vould not orely follon
Trom thence, (as the. Lpicurean AcheiA supposes
Becanse Anciens Phrsiolozers maintainedihe same that Matter, but also that all SouIS, (at least
also concernine Nacurall Generacions, That no Dlumane) did Lxist OF Themselves, from KceI-
Ne RCAHI Encier or Subllance, contd Be therein nier. Independemly upon an thine else; it De-
Produced; and Lastly, because it is certain, ibat ine impossible, that Mindor Soul, Bould bea Mo-
no Imperteet Creaced BCinB can Creace any diticacion of Sensels Macter. or Resuls From
s
Pieures, Sices, Mocions, and Maoniendes. HU
fure ol Porver Whassoedet,  oes See. . mane SoulS SubstanciaII, and iberetore, accor
Bat as casu. for a Perteet den  Creale dine 1o ibis Docrine, must have been Nevet
Norid Matier ana du OuC OF NochinS. (in Made; mberens Acheiss stiste dony borh their
ibis sense, that is, out of an Anceceden NOn. PrX, aud POH. Exillence. Zhose Papan YhCiAS,
Neu Subltance: Pherdene ocrsdis aponca-