The atheist silenced, or, The existence of a deity and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason, and the light of nature only, in a plain and mathematical method by axioms and theorems : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / by J.M. ...

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Title: The atheist silenced, or, The existence of a deity and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason, and the light of nature only, in a plain and mathematical method by axioms and theorems : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / by J.M. ...
Author: J. M.
Publication: London :: Printed by T.R. & N.T. for Daniel Brown ...,; 1672.
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Subject terms: God -- Proof -- Early works to 1800.; Atheism -- Early works to 1800.
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THEOREM. XVIII. Nothing can of it self pass from no∣thing to an astual Existence.

For either it must do so whilst it is not, or whilst it is; not the first, for that which is not, can do nothing; Axiom the 4th, not the second; for that which is, is not in power to be that which already it is; Axiom the 5th, therefore, &c.