Part II, The LivingTemple.- But if we carry the univerfal Prop* tion, as it is laid down, tho that will oblige us afterwards, as well to confute his FrenchConfuter, as him it carries the Caufe ofReligion withmuch the greater, Clearnefs, and with evident unexception- able Self-confifency. For, indeed, that Being cannot be underftood to be abfo- lutely Perfe&, which doth not eminently comprehend the entire Fulnefs of all Be- ing in it felf; as that mull be an heap of Imperfe&ion, an everlaíting Chaos, an impofiible Self-repugnant Medley, that fhould be pretended to contain all the Varieties, the Diverfifications, Compo- fitions and Mixtures ofthings in it felf formally. And for the univerfal Propofí'tion : The matter it felf requires not an immediate, felf-evident, reciprocal Connexion of the Terms necefarilyfelf-exifleet, and ab- folutely perfect. It is enough that it how- ever be brought about by gradual Steps, in a way that, at length, cannot fail and I conceive, bath been, in the Method, that was follow'd in the Former Part. For, to bring the Bufinefs now within as narrow a compafs, as is poffible. No- thing is more evident than that force Be- ing ex f s neceffirily, or of it felf; other- wife nothing at all could now exift. A- B 3 gain,
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