Excerpt from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: More Particularly in Answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, and Their Followers; Wherein the Notion of Liberty Is Stated, and the Possibility and Certainty of It Proved, in Opposition to Necessity and Fate Idea of 3 Being, the Suppofition of whofe Non Exiftence is an exprels Contradietion. 16 That every Man may be more certain of the Being of a Supreme Independent Cau fe, than he can be of any thing elfe belides his own Exiitence. I 8 Of the Idea of God, including self-exifl'ence. R 9 That the Material Pfirld cannot pollibly 'be the Firfi, Original, and Independent Being. Z I The Form of the World, not Necelfary. Nor its Motion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.