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ed necessarily in onesolid mass , or insepa r ^ Sand incoherent farts. It could not exiftcessarily both these ways, since the one e3f

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nor can both be said to be unnecessary, or in&$ e{ethat would be a neceffty ej utiiversal indifferentwant of necessity, whereby opposite affections ot o({necessity and indifference] would be cor> soursemade the fame: and such notions applied to Beti'S ^would make strange work in Philosophy. Absolct®cessity is everywhere alike and uniform, withoutrence or variety, which indeed thews the units otceffary Being, as Dr. Clarke observes. Now I c ^f f ttfrobserving, that this seems very different from the a tau method. They first of all form, if not arbitse’V^g,least voluntarily, the idea of an infinitely perfect

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the complex idea of an infinitely perfect Bejng -fs

sols upon us, property by property; and the

becomes necessary. Let me farther observe that js

improper to apply , here Mr. Leibnitz's principse 0 ^ $ficient reason. ‘This necessity appears to me to°ssufficient reason, as it is necessity, for neceffty 1 ^ tothan bare sufficiency. And this will hold alsoT? ]the manner of necessary existence, which rvihope, appear necessary immediately. And th« s ^ Ias to the proof of necessary Being, «shall have occasion to resume in establiihtngot the Deity. ^