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for any one to recommend his own performance by endeavouring to discover the imperfections of others who are engaged in the same design with himself, of promoting the interest of true religion and virtue. But every man ought to use such arguments only as appear to him to be clear and strong, and the readers must judge whether they truly prove the conclusion.

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That Difficulties arising merely from the Nature of Eternity, are not to be
regarded, because equal in all Suppositions

ibid.

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Of the Absolute Impossibility of an eternal Succession of dependent Beings,
existing without any original independent cause at all
PROP. III. That that Immutable and Independent Being, which has existed
from Eternity, without any external cause of its Existence, must be
Self-existent, that is, Necessarily-existing
Of the true Idea of Self-existence; That it is the Idea of a Being, the
Supposition of whose Non-Existence is an express Contradiction
That every Man may be more certain of the Being of a Supreme Indepen-
dent Cause, than he can be of any thing else besides his own Existence

Of the Idea of God, including Self-Existence

ibid.

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Of the Power of creating immaterial Cogitative Substances, and those in-

dued with Liberty of Will or Choice

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That there is now no consistent scheme of Deism in the World
PROP. I. That, from the Eternal and Necessary Differences of Things, there
naturally and necessarily arise certain Moral Obligations, which are of
themselves incumbent on all Rational Creatures, antecedent to all positive
Institution and to all expectation of Reward or Punishment

That there are Eternal and necessary Differences of Things

An Answer to the Objection drawn from the variety of Opinions of the learned
Men, and the Laws of different Nations, concerning Right and Wrong

That the will of God always determines itself to act according to the Eter-

nal Reason of Things

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The Law of Nature` Eternal, Universal, and Absolutely Unchangeable
Eternal Moral Obligations antecedent, in some respect, even to this Con-
sideration, of their being the Will or Command of God himself

The Law of Nature Obligatory, antecedent to all consideration of particular

Rewards and Punishments

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