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CHAP. II. (Book 2)
The two more principal grounds which a Temple supposes. 1. The existence of God. 2. His Conversableness with men: Both argued from common consent. The former doubtful if ever wholly deny'd in former days. The latter al∣so implied in the known general practice of some or other Religion. Evidenc'd, in that some, no strangers to the world, have thought it the difference of man. The immodesty and rashness of the persons from whom any oppo∣sition can be expected. These two grounds pro∣posed to be more strictly considered apart. And first the existence of God. Where first the no∣tion of God is assigned. The parts whereof are proposed to be evinc'd severally of some exi∣stent Being. 1. Eternity. 2. Self-origina∣tion. 3. Independency. 4. Necessity of exi∣stence. 5. Self-activity. The impossibility this world should be this necessary self-active Being. The inconsistency of necessary alter∣able matter, more largely deduced in a mar∣ginal digression. 6. Life. 7. Vast and migh∣ty power. A Corollary.
NOW the grounds more necessary to be laid down, and which are suppo∣sed * 1.1 in the most general notion of a Temple, are especially these two;
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