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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. -

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  1. Lhe ConTIIS.
  2. alviys be Added. No Maenitude so Greac Threc ansles ot a FrianglC, not 10 be V qual 10
  3. neither, bnt ihat a GirCaCeE may be Supposed. Ero RiBhc. This te make one accribure of th0
  4. By Intinice SpacC. Lo be Vnderstood, Norhins Deiry Devour and Destrey anorber; Intinice
  5. bur a Poltibilier of more and more BodY, fur- Willand Pover, Intinire Understanding and
  6. iber and further Intinicels, by Divine Porver;
  7. WWisedom. 20 suppose Cod ro Underctand and
  8. or 1b st ihe W orid could never be made soCreac, be Wile, ovely by Will, Kealiy 10 sive him no
  9. as +bat G0d was not able ro mate it still Greater. Understandins at all. Cod not so Ommipo
  10. Ibis Poceniat Intinier, or Indefinier os Body, cenc, as ibet be can destroy ihe Tncelligible N
  11. seems to be mistaten, for an Actual Intiniss of cures of ibines; which vere to Basse aud Besoot
  12. Space. Lasly, no Intinies oF Time Palt, Be- bis orn Wisedom. Intinite Porver, IBat
  13. cause ibenrbere must necds be Time Pali, mhieh whieh can doc allibat is Poltible; ihst H, Con-
  14. never vas PretCnE. An argumenc ofaMedem ceirable, or Implies no Concradiction. Ibc.
  15. Writer. Reason therefore Concludes, neisber ibe very Pllence of Postibilier, Concepcibiliir.
  16. WVorId non Time, io have been Intinice in Pall And thus al ibe Ancient TheiMS. Absurd sor
  17. Duracion.
  18. Pa8e643, 644 Acheists 1osay, ihat a Porver of doins Norbin
  19. Eere will ihe Acheist ibink he bis eot a but nhat is Conceirable, is Unconccivable.
  20. Creat Advantoee for disprovine ihe Fxiltence
  21. Ot aCOd; TBcy Wwho ibm tatee av ay ibC Ecer-
  22. ibid. 646
  23. But because acheists lock upon Intinier n
  24. Diey oEthe Worid, rakine avoy alsorhe Lcer- Sueh a Mormo, we sall take ost the Virare
  25. nies ot a Ood. A5 if C0d conld not be Ecer- From it; by dectarins, Tbat it it Really norhine
  26. naI obermise, iben by a Succestive FluX of else but verfection. Intinice Understandine
  27. antinice Time. But we say, ib s ebis assordeth and Knoledee, Perteet Underllandine viib-
  28. a Demonstration ol a C0d; Because since borh ont any Delect, audihe Knoledse of all ibines
  29. ihe WVorid and Time had a Becinnine; ibere Knowable. Intinice Porer, Pertect Pouver;
  30. mustos necessit be Somethine, mbose Duration or a Porver os doine all ibines Posible. Inti-
  31. is nos Succestive, but Permanent, wbicb wastbe nice Duracion, Pertection os PNence. Because
  32. Creatoux of them boh. W herefore ihe Acheills Intinier. Pertection: berefore Norhine obict
  33. ean bere onely make Crimaccs, and Quibble upon includeth any rbine of imperfection in ibc FL
  34. NunC- ScanS; as if ibis Scandins Pterniiy of sence of it, can be truly and properly Intinice;
  35. ihe Deier vere norhine but a Pitisull MOmenE as Number, Magnicude, and Pime: all rhich
  36. os Time Scanding AiII; and as is all Duracion, ean but Connerseit intinier. Nochine Onc
  37. must needs bethesame wiihours, Xc. 644, 645 voy Intinice, nhich is not se Pvery riy, or a
  38. Concluded, Thst Intinice and liternal, are Pertect BCinB.
  39. not Words rehich senisy Norbine in ihe ibine
  40. 647, 618
  41. Nom, That ve bave an Idea of Pertection,
  42. it sels, but onety ibe Idle ProBrels of our plain from ihst os imperfection. Perlection
  43. Minds, ox our cron tenorance, Scuxid ARO- Pirst in Order of Nature, as ihe Rule and Mea-
  44. nistiment, and Veneration: not meer auri- Sure. 2bis not ihe vant of Imperlection, but
  45. butes of Flonour and Complemene, but Accri. Imperfection themant es Perfection. A Scalo
  46. buces beloneins 1o ihe Dciey, Cand IB st alone)
  47. or Ladder of Perfections in Nature, Perceived
  48. of ibe most PhiloCophick Pruch. And thoueb Lymeansof ibst Idea, wbich me haveos a Beinp
  49. ve hve no adcquace Comprehention ibereos.
  50. Absolucely Per(cet. +he Measure ofibem. WV ith-
  51. Vet must ve have some Bocion of ihat, Which ont which, we contd nos take noriecof Imper-
  52. ve can Demonstrate 10 belone 10 Sometbine. Eection, in ihe most Perteet os all ibose tbine
  53. 645, 646 wbich we ever had Sense of. Boccius; Tbat what-
  54. But ihe Thine wbich ibe acheiAs Principaliy Soever is Imperleet in any kind, implies some-
  55. Duarret with, is Intinice Pover, or Omnipo- tbine in chac kind Pertect, from mhence it Ws
  56. tence; which ihey pretend also 10 be unerly derived. And ihat ihe Nacure OF chings 100L
  57. Unconccirable, and Impostible, and a Name not Beginmine, from any thins Incompleac and
  58. OE Noching. W here indeed our Modern A-
  59. impertect; but descended doonmard, from
  60. cheilts bavethe joint Suffraceos ihe Ancients also, bss mus Absoluce Pertect, by seps and de-
  61. ho concerned themseloes in eothinemore, iben erees. Lorver aud Lorver.
  62. IV berefore since Intinice, ihe same with Per-
  63. Fect: ve bavine a Nocion os ihe L accer, muli
  64. rancly Disrepresented y aCties; as if it vere necds have of the Porrmer. And thoueh ihe
  65. a Pover ol doins chines Conctadictious. An Word Intinice be Negacire, ves is ihe Senle
  66. Trony os a Modern Actet That Cod could Policive. Finice ihe Negacion os Intinice, an
  67. Turn a Prec lnto Syllosilim. Ibe Absurd bich in order of Nature is beforeit; and not In-
  68. tinice of Linice. Povever in ibines Vncapable os
  69. made T wice cW0. l lo trave bcen Four; or ihc Tiue intiniy. insinicy beine here a mect
  70. Imagi
  71. Disprovine Omnipolence, or Intinice Lover. ib.
  72. This Omnipocence, ciher Wilfuly or leno-
  73. Doctrine os Carcelius; Ibat Cod contd have

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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066511403:0155?run=74