The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 724
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- Other Demonstrations
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- but AbTurd. Wheresore chere is Comething more co be Inferred
- Trom the NecelEs of Existence included in che Idca OF A Pertect BC
- ins chan (o, irhich can be nochine else buc rhis, chat it absolutely and
- actnallu Is. Moreorer no Theilts can Be able to prove that God or 2
- Persect Beine (supposcd by them to Exist) mistuc noc Ilappen b7
- Chance onty +o BC; il trom the Necessit ot Existence included in
- the idea of God; it cannot be inferred chat he could noc But BC.
- Notmichstandins irhich, here is no endeavour, (asis pretended) 10
- provethe Pxiltence ot a God or Perfect Beine, A Priori neither, Or
- trom any Necessary cause antecedent; but only From that Necessit
- ertich is included michin ie selF, or is concomitant and concurrent
- vith ic3 the Necesserr OF ils omn perfect Nature. And now ve BaIL
- learethe Incellisent and Impartial Reader, to make his omn Jude-
- ment concernine the Forementioned Carretian Argument Por a Deity,
- drauntrom its idea, osincludinq Necessity os Existence in ie, chat there-
- fore Et Is) Whether it be meerty sophisticat, or hach Comechins ol
- Solidisu and Realisy in ic. Flomerer it is not very Probable, chac many
- Atheists, will be convinced chereby, buc thac chey will rather be
- ready cosar, that ehis is no Probation at aIl oF a Deiey, bue ouly an
- affirmation oE chethine in Dispure, and a meer Beceine oF thc Qne-
- stion; thac cheretore GodEs, Because he Is, Or Cannot But be.
- WhereFore we Ball endeavour, to make out un dreument, or De-
- monstration, Cor the Existence of a Cod, Trom his Idea, as includine Ne-
- cessaro Existence init, Lome other maxo. And Fir(, Wwe BaII make an
- ONer comards ic in this manner. Though ic rill noc follon Pronn
- hence, becaule we can Frame an Idea oF any thinq in our minds, thac
- theretore Tuch a thins RcaIly Pxisteth; vet nevercheless, Whatloever
- We can Prame an Edea OE, Implyins no manner ol Contradiction in Ils
- Conception, we may certainly conclude thus much oF it, chac suCH =
- thino ivaS nOL Impossible to be; there being nochine co us impossible
- but iohac is Contradictions and Repuenant eo Concextion. Nou chc
- Ideq of Cod ora Perfect Beine, can Tmply no manner oF contradiction
- in ic, because it is onlr the Idea OF such a chins astrath aIL Possible anc
- Conceivable Perrections in it 3 chatis, aIl Persections Wrhich are neicher
- Contradictions in chemselves, nOT tO One anOther. And they Who
- Wwillnot allon oP chis Consequence, From che Ideaof à Porfect Beins.
- includins Necessit of Existence inic, chac ic doch cheretore actnalls
- Exist, vet cannot deny, buc chat this at least will FOIIOW, TrON
- ies implying no manner oE Contradiction in ic, that ie is ERCTCFOTE
- hins Possible, Ox nOE impossible CO BC. FOr thus much beine true ob
- allocher contineent thines, Whose Idea impliech no contradiction
- thac chey are theretore Possible; ic must necds be granted or chat-
- Whose very idea and Essenee containeth a Necelsity of Existence in its
- as the Essence oF nochins else but a Perfect Beine doct. And chis is
- thCFirCSceP, that wenon makre in may oF Argumentation, Prom che
- idea oF 60d or a perfect Beine, havins nochins contradictious in I-
- Thac cheretore God is at lcaltPossible, Or nO ay impossible tohaVe
- been. In the next place as this parricular Idea oF chac Wrhiet is Possi
- ble includeth Necessity of Existence in iC; Trom chele Zwo thines pui
- cosether at lealt, ihc Possibility oF suet a Beins, and its Necessary Ex
- isterict
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 724. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0744?run=74