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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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arc capable oF any oF chem.
STI. The Existence oF Matter, i5 a
Plain Demonstration ot the Fxistence of a
Deity. I beliere no body doubes, that
there noir exicts a Onantier ot solid Mass,
out ot irtich che celestial and terrestrial
Bodies vere formd; aud tho perhaps in
our most Colid Bodies, there be more
Pores than Parts, or more Vacnity chan
Solidity, vec there is RiII Pufticient, nOE
ro permit us to doubt ot the Existence ot
Macter. Wheretore lince Matter nowa.
cually is, I roud slady learn hou
ic tirst existed. Ic cond never hare been
OF ic CeIF, Tinee e are certain, chat it
15 destitute ot all actice Oualities wrtrac-
Coerer; ic cannot more of itself, nor rhen
Dut in motion ean it rest OF itself, nOr
oF iiself chanse ils Course, nor alter its
Direction; ic can neither change its
ligure, nor Colour, nor Sitmation; in a
Word, ic is endud with no Properes but In.
actiries, ertich is but a Negation. ITOW
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