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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 765

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  4. Matrer not NecCN. PXistent.
  5. ut is cerrain alco, chac Nochine could Exist Necessarily OF ic SCII
  6. Whac included Necessity os Existence ID IES OWn NaturC. FOr 10 sup.
  7. Dole any chins co LxiCtOf it sels Necessarily, Which hach no Necessiry oF
  8. Existence in its omn Nacure, is plainly eo suppose that Necessary Exist-
  9. enee otit, to Come srom Norhing, Cinceit could neither procced trom
  10. chac Thins it selE, nor y et From any chins elle. Lastly, chere is Nochine
  11. Wrhich includes Necessity of Existence in ies very Nature and essence, bue
  12. ouly au absolurelu Perfeet Beins. TheRetule oF aII Wrhich is, thac God
  13. or a Pertect BcinB, doch certainly Exist, and chac chere is Nothine
  14. else etrich Existed OF ic selE tromEternier, Neceltarily and lnde-
  15. pendenely; but all ocherchines whacloerer derired cheir Beins trom
  16. Im, Or Were Caused by him; Matter Or Body it selFnOE excepied.
  17. Thac wtich hath Stagsered Come Theists here, and madle chem lo in
  18. Elinable and prone to beliere, chac Marrer allo Existed trom Pternity
  19. Onmade. is Parcly (as hach been already intimated) ad Ediorical Conceit.
  20. hat becaule Nochins can be arrificially made by men, othermise chian
  21. OUTOE ere. Existins Matrer, a5 Fouses dud Garments, Puddines, and
  22. Eres, cheresore chere could be no other makeins ot anr chins by any
  23. over whalsoever: chouxheven men chemselres, can produce some-
  24. AIMS OUE OE DOPre. Existent Matter, as Coeitations aud Local Motion.
  25. lad ihe same parcly proceedeth also, trom cerrain False Opinions
  26. ncertained, ConcerninB Master. POr Erst lome Theists have suppo-
  27. ed bamo cocopcaeror, an Incorporeal First Master; out oF wtrich Incor-
  28. Poreal Masrer. Fogecher wich an Incorporeat Form, Toyned 10 it.
  29. hey conceived che essence of Body co have been Compounded, and
  30. Madeup. And no monder iE chele Pame Fancisul Philosophers, have
  31. lrelier ad ded allo hereunco, chac trom chis Incorporeat Marter, by an
  32. Incorporeal Form, vere bezorten litcevile incorporeal Qualities of B0-
  33. G. Nou ic isnoc Conceirable, what elle Mould bemeant, by chis
  34. incorporeal Hyle or Master, buc ouly a Mletaphysieat Notion, OE chC Po-
  35. ntralitus or Possibilitys oE chines, respectirely co theDeier; Wtriek
  36. secause it is indeed Eternal, and as much Dnmade 25 C0d himsclF is.
  37. beins Norhine buc che Divine Pomer considered Passively, or the Re-
  38. verse oF ic; cheretore in all probabilier, vere chele Philolophers (0
  39. prone cochinte, che Physicat Master, oF this Corporcal 2 niverse, 10
  40. have been Eternal and Unmade. Neicher was chis Incorporeal Hyle
  41. OrMaster, a Novel Opinion, encertained ouls by Some Junior Plato-
  42. nists, buc older chan aristorle himselF; as appearech plainly trom chele L. L. c. 6
  43. collowine words o his inhis Metaphysictes, oi pev 3d cos vnlii rl ae- Ibus Por
  44. A neySOV, EAVTE OEA, EaV aarON do, Some speckof the Prin-phyr. TuS
  45. iple as Matter; mhether they suppose ihis Matrer to be Body, or to be duc re idice
  46. ncorporeal. Buc chis Incorporeat Master in Phytolos can b0 ac. 285 ae-
  47. Counced no becter chan a kind oF Metaphysicat Non Sense. ABnin 9. Xais5 raece
  48. hers seem cohare beenche more prone cothinte, Matter Or Body, 10 ~c. Matoris
  49. RorouaTaE.
  50. have been sels. Existent and Onmade, becaule chey boch conceired Proprietates
  51. 10 DC Kealty che same chins wich space, and allo c0ok ic For grant. secundum
  52. d, ihac space vas insinite, and Eternal, aud Consequeney Necessarilo Veteres, ha
  53. xistent. In ansiver Wvhereunto ve reply First, Thac chousti spacesunt; Quoc
  54. ind Distance, Bould be granced co be Positively Infinite, Or to have nosi Incorpore-
  55. munde nor Limitsac all, as alloro have been eternal, yet accordine
  56. e e

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 765. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0785?run=74