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e * n & f°r the manner of its existence at least:

lf it depended on another Being for thea nner of its existence, it must depend on^Being for existence itself • since it cannotfe 1 * ^ Ut * n s ome manner - Existence takenJ m paratel y from all manner of existence is anit ? 0 "ihilit^, the negation of existence. Butq at h been shewn (N° 4.) that a self-exi-^ Being must be also independent for its,Nee, and therefore for the manner of^^ftence. Nay, so independent is the man-f of necessary existence, that it is even ab-^ . to suppose it to depend on the necessaryitself or to be determined by it; fort^ u Sht to exist before it could determinef banner of its own existence, and there-U to exist without determining the man-of its existence; or to exist in a necessaryto ^dependent manner. Or thus. It oughtbefore it could determine the man-i^of its own existence, and yet to deter-c 0 .0 the manner of its existence before it^ e xist } since the manner of its existencet er Pp °fed dependent on, and therefore de-si \y Q lne ^ by itself; which is repugnant. Inif the manner of necessary existencee ^pendent, it would be eff'edied: and