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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 42, page id 797370323:0200
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any Canse. My Delion in che followins
Dilcourle is noc to dilpute asainst any
Scheme ot chole wrhro admit the Rxistence
OF a Deity, I incend ouly to chew, that
this prelene cate of thinss con d noc have
been trom all Eternity, neither oF ic sclt,
noc withont che Frequent and particular
interposition of a Divine Porver; and to
ake it plain that naturally and of it PelF it
tendo to Dissolution; Tho in che mean
time, ic is not to be doubted bue thac
that Almichey Porver Which coud create
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Terre ic in being as lons as Ile pleales.
SXV. That this Ulniverse con d never
have been Acom all Pternity oF itselF, in
the prelent condition ic nor is, is evident
fromhence, that it requires an extrinsick
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