The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 887
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- C HA P. V. Wortd Oncapable of Pternity.
- made Sooner, since ihis Goodnes oF God was withour Date, anet
- Com Pverlactins. Buc ehis Question may be takcen in ero disterent
- Sentes, Ficher, Why as not ihe morid from Pternity, as Cod and his
- Goodness are Eternal? Or else Secondly, Is the Worid could not be frone
- Eternity, vet notwithstandine Wrhy vas it not sooner, butso lately made E
- In boch irhich Queries che Atomick Atheists cakce it For Granced, thac
- ihe Syltem oF cheWorid mas noc trom Eterniey, buc had a begin-
- ning. Now velar, Thac cheRealon whr che world mas noc Made
- Trom Eternity, WaS nOF FrOm any Defect oE Goodness in theDivine
- Will but becanse chere is an absolute impossibiliry in che ching ic selE;
- Or because he Necessity and Incapacisy ot lueh an Emperseet Beine hin-
- dered. For we mustcontels, that For our parts, meare pronetobe-
- liere, Thaccould che morid harebeen trom lternier, it Bould cer-
- tainly have been (0. And just thus does Philoponus, in his Confuta-
- tionot Proclus his Aroumens Cor che WVorIdsEternicy, declare him
- TelF. and no ocherwise. Kai iueis à eg pn Eveet Y nbC pa aictor Vnoli dt- P. 4.
- HEVBI, 37 2d Evat = Dedv ci el aza dor à paeS Eda, 32 àderdar d dpuse.
- es avr narmoesuer devaEcoS. aMa jin deradas aici Eivat ubC
- pos di avri TW 2S quouers pbo VnEn DEuEda. Our selves also suppo-
- sine, the morid not to have been Fternal, do neither ascribe this to anv
- Desect either os Codness orof Pover in the Deity, but only to the Impols-
- bilitu of the Thine it sels. Wrhere in che Collorins mords, he sires a
- Tvo Fold AcconnEoF chis impossibilisy, OF che worids Pterniey, dri 2
- id cndeor nar Ereeydaer inosivai, i desirutor Erat, advrator iv. drt
- orraidton Eiraes ZS nOISIII ro qoVEVOV aboV Su Exd. L’irst because, There can
- be nothine actually insinite, and pet Run throneh, as aIl ihe Past Durari-
- on of the Worid hathbeen; and Secondly, because that whichis Made or
- broneht into Beine by anoiher, as a distinet thine (rom it, cannot be Co-
- Eternal mithits Maker. Where it is probable, chac Philoponus beine
- a Christian, detigned noc to oppole che Eternal Generation oF the Son
- of Cod, buc ouly co asfere, chac Nochins which ras properly Made
- Or created by Cod, and nochine irtrich was noc ic selE God, could bc
- Trom Eternity, or wichout Bepinninr. And now we scc, Ho chose
- Atheistick Exceptions against che Novity oC che Divine Creation, as il
- Cod mult cheresore cicher have slept from Eternity, Or elle have at
- lenoh contracted a sariery oF his Former solitnde, and thelitce; do
- OE themsetres quice ranith inco Nochins. Buc chen as tothe Second
- sense oEthe Guestion, Why ihe Worid thoueh it conld not possibly be fron
- Eternity, pet mas no sooner, but so lately made? We (ay, chac ehis is an
- absurd Question; boch because Zime was made cogecher wich ehe
- Worid, and ehere as no sooneror Later, belore Time; aud allo be-
- cause, Whacsoerer had a beginnine, must oF neceltitr be once but
- a Day OId. Wheretore che World could noc postibly have been (0
- Made by God intime, aS noc co be oncc, but Five or Six Thousand
- rears Old, and nomore; asnom it is.
- And as Tor che Third and L ast Query; Hom God contd move and
- command the Malter of ihe whole WoridE especially I5 Incorporeat ?
- Ne Reply; PirH, Thac all ocher chines beins derived from Cod a5
- Cheir onty Founeain and Original, and P. Sencially dependins on him
- vho by his absoluse Porver allo. could Annihilate What (oeverhe Crea-
- 1ed 3
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 887. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0907?run=74