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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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he Contents.
d4. That the present State of thines, must of ne-
cessiey have been formi d, by different Laos, and
Principles, from relat they are no covernd,
and therefore must have been produe d by au in-
telligent Beins, Wwhich is COd,
D. 8Y
S5. That not onty ihe first Formation, and. Ar-
rancement of the great Bodies of the Dniverse
but also their first Impulses, alone the TasCNIS
of their Orbirs, did require the Porver of an
Almishts BCIBS.
D. 81
d6. That not only the Formation and first Impul-
ses, in richt Lines, of the greatBodies, did re-
quire the Pover of Omnipotence; but also their
centripetal impulles, did, and dostill, require
a Pover above Matter,
D. 85
d7. That the FXistence of Animals, necessarily in-
fers the Fxiltence of a Deity,
D. 87
S8. That the Spontaneous Norions, of irratio-
nal, and the voluntary Notions, of rational
Creatures, their Ereedom and Liberes and all
Jhe Appearances of Prature, which are abeve the
overs of Mectanim, are se many Proofs of
the Beine of a COd,
P. 88
9. The Preservation of the Beins, and of the
Faculties of Thines, necessarily requires theP on-
er, and consequently the Existence of a Deity
D. 89
Ibid, A Derioncration, ibat ihe Preservation, ot
a movine Body in its motion, does not depend
on the Nature of Matter, nor of Motion, and
consequently, that it must por from some l’orver
distinet from these
D. 9C
10.