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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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LhC COnFCHES.
Progrels in ihe Caules ot Motion, and no FirIt) This a Prodisions Paradox, and Faltier ol
Mover; is all one as 10 fay. That there is No AcheiAs; That Cogitation, Local Mocion;
Canse at aII TherCOF; or, Zbat all sbe Mocion and Thintcins BCinES, Machines. Here a
in iheWorid, is a Paltion without an ABenE, or Correction of what ve mrote before, P. 761.
Comes from Nochins. Clearty Impossible, Tbat and a Change of our Opinion ubau surcher
ibere sould be any Motion at all, vere there Consideration; Ibat not onely a Moderm Wri-
Nochins SelF.Movins or SelF. ACtIVC. PaBC) ter, but also ihe Anciens acheistick AComillS.
843
WBerefore fromthis Principle, Thas no Body
did conclude, Cogitation 1o be Really norhine etse
but LOcal Mocion. Neveriheless, ibese men
CAN MOvC JESCIF, it follors Vndeniably:; That troubled with the Phaney of Cogication; whicb
bere is Some orber Substance in the Worid be- because they cannot male Local Mocion, ibcy
sides Body, ibat bath an ACtive POIVCrOfMO. mould persuade i 10 be no RealieY, or WB-
vins BodY.
343, 844
ching. AcheiAs avare, That is ibere bc anv
Anorber Corollary fromthe same Principle; Action besides LocaII Mocion, ihere must rben
Tbat ibere is another Species of Action, distinet be some oiber Substance actnon ledeed besides
from Locall Mocion, and mhichis not Hetero. BodY. Qbcy nho mate Cosicarion L.Ocal MO-
kineir, but Aucokiner. Tbat ihe action tion, and Men, Machines, no moreto be dispu-
By which Local Mocion is sirst Cansed, contd sed with, ihen Senstels Machines. PaBC 846,
not be it self LOcal Motion. AI LOcal MO.
tion Caused Originally by Cogicacion. Thus
847
T0 arm, Zbas no Undersandins BeinB can
ihe Winch Acheistict ArGUMenE from Mocion BCHADBY, nor a Cod, because Dependent upon
Confured; and frombence, Thac no BOdy can Somethine virbout it; all one as 10 APirm. Tbac
Move ic SeIF. Demonstrated Tbat ihere is
Somethine Incorporeal. ibe Firit C ausC OF L0.
cal Mocion, bi Copitation.
Sensels Maccer is ihe Most Pertect os allrbines:
and, That Knomledee, as sucb, speatiine imper-
ibid. section, is but a Whimtins aud Phancallick
But ihs Acheills furtber Pretend 10 Prove,
ching. But of ibis more ostermards. Ibus
Tbat Cogication it CelE is Hecerokinely, ibo ihe Tench Acheistick ArgumenE Confured.
Paltion of ihe Thinker, andihe action of some
oiber Pxternal Agent upon him; Because N0-
chins cahech Beginnins Trom IE SelE; and
Anocher acheisticte Areumene, From ibe
Nacure os Knoledee aud Understandine.
No Coritation can rise oF Je SelF, wichout a TB =t ihC WV orid contd nor be made by an Under-
Cause. That iherefore, Thintins BeineS them-
dins Beins, Because rbere vas no lnoledee
selves are Machines, and Cogitation LOcalMO- Before Thines, wbich are ibe Objects of it;
cion. And, No Underctandins BeinB, a First and she oucly Thines are Sensibles, hich
Cause, nor Persecly HapPY; because Deven
dene upon sometbine else.
Knomledee a Pastion from. Tberesore all Minc,
844, 845 as such, a CreRCUTE, aNd Hone a CreaCOUT.
ansiver. True, Ibat no Substance cakech
ibid.
Bexinnins sram it Sels; as also, Thasno Action This atready fully An(vered, PapC 729, and
Causech it Self. But Falle, That No action so formards. Wt bere Proved, Tbat Singular
cateth Beoinnino from the Immediace AgenC; Bodies are not iheOnely Thines, aud Objecte
or That Nochino can AC ocherrise, chen 25 of rheMind, buc ebat it containethirs Incellipi-
acted upon by Somethins ei(c. AcheiAS bles witbin it Sels. And, That Knoledec, is
bere assirm onely, rwbat they sonid Prove. and ArchecrpaII co ihe Worid, and ihe Mater of
S0 Bes ihe Question. I Nochine SelF. Active, AII. Seihe Exiltence ot a Cod, DemonAtra-
iben all the Mocion and action in she Universe, bIC, from ihe Nacure of Kno ledse and Un-
must Come trom Nochins, or be Macle wichouc derstandine.
aCausc.
845
Erue also, Tbat our Humane Cogitations
are frequenttu occasioned from L xcernallObjects,
847, 848
Tbat ihe AcheiAS can no more Salve ibC PHX-
nomenon of Cogication, iben ibat of LOcaII
Mocion: Evident from ibeir Many Hallucina-
and that ihe Concacenations of Thouxhes and tions concernine il; rmbereos a Cataloeue sub-
Phancalins, osten depend upon Mechanick Cau- jorned. First, That al Lile and Underctan-
CCs. But False, Tbat all Cogitations are Ob.
cruded upon us from withont; and, Tbat no
Franstion in our ThousHES, whieh Was nOt BC-
fore in Senle. JheHumane Soul a Principleol
actions, aud iherefore also of Cogitacions. Ibis
dins ameer accidencall chine, Generable and
Corrupcible, and no Lile nor Mind Substan-
cialI or FNencialI. This before Confuled.
848
Aeain 2bat Lile and Mind, no simple aud
a Bubblins Fountain ol ThouxtS. Bus ihat Primicive Nacures, bus Compounded SyIIa-
there is such a Perteet Mind, as at onee Compre- bles of ibines; aud therefore none ImmortaII
bends al Truct, aud was Besore Sentibles. 845, nor Incorrupcibie. Ansiver; Zbut liite and
un