An essay on the origin of evil . d have been pro-duced by fuch a Being. All his works muft have contained in them all imaginableEvil and Repugnancy; all the Parts of them mull have beenincongruous aud inconfiflent, and confequcntly have deftroydthemfelves and one another. Nay, fuch a Being could haveproperly no Po^erzt all ; for if he produced any thing whichwas confillent, it woud be fo far good, and fo good woud procee<i • This Sayle calls Chans. See N. See Remark d. Chap. II. cind Dlvlfmi of Evil, each Kind of Evil i and firft, concerning the Evilof lmprfeUion» NOTES. proceed from a
An essay on the origin of evil . d have been pro-duced by fuch a Being. All his works muft have contained in them all imaginableEvil and Repugnancy; all the Parts of them mull have beenincongruous aud inconfiflent, and confequcntly have deftroydthemfelves and one another. Nay, fuch a Being could haveproperly no Po^erzt all ; for if he produced any thing whichwas confillent, it woud be fo far good, and fo good woud procee<i • This Sayle calls Chans. See N. See Remark d. Chap. II. cind Dlvlfmi of Evil, each Kind of Evil i and firft, concerning the Evilof lmprfeUion» NOTES. proceed from a Principle abfolutely Evil, which Is no lefs aContradidion than that Evil fliould be producd by one abfo-lutely Good: Which if it be allowed, theres no farther Occa-fion to enquire after the Origin of Evil at all. For chat mayproceed from an infinitely good Being, as well as good caafrom one infinitely evil. From hence it is evident that thebringing in of two Principles does not in the leaft account forthe Origin of Evil. IIS. I 2 CHAP. ii6 Chap. III. CHAP, III. Of the Evil of DefeB. Things A ^ ^^^ the ^vi\ of ImperfeBio^, it is to be con-can be no JL^ fiderd, that before the World was createdotherwife Qq(\ exifted alone, and nothing belide him. AllGod ^^1 livings therefore are out of nothing, and \thatfoeverfed. exiils, has its Exiftence from God; neither can that Exiftence be different either in Kind or Degree from what he gave *.All crca- II* Secondly, God, tho he be omnipotent, can-ted th ngs not make any created Being abfolmely perfe^, forare necel- whatever is abfolutely perfed, muft necellarily befarily^im- ^^^^ exiftent. But it is included in the very No-fince they ^^ ^^ ^ Creature, ;:s fuch, not to exift of itfelf,do not but from God. An abfolutely perfed: Creatureexill of therefore implies a Contradiftion. For it would be them- q[ itfelf and not of itielf at the fame time Ci8.)fclvcs. ^^^ NOTES, C\^-^{i^.ytAperfeJl Creature \s a Contradiftion in terms. Foiif it hzp
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