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Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner
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10. "We might as well say a table had no cause, as that the world
had none."

11. "A Being originally and necessarily capable of comprehending
itself, it is not improper to call infinite, for we can have no idea
of any bounds to it's knowledge or power."

12. "A series of finite causes cannot possibly be carried back
_ad infinitum_."

13. "Our imagination revolts at the idea of an intellectual soul of
the universe, that is, of an intelligence resulting from
arrangement."

14. "The actual existence of the universe compels us to come at last
to an _originally existent and intellectual Being_, because if the
immediate maker of the universe has not existed from all eternity,
he must have derived his being and senses from one who has, and that
being we call God."

15. "God must be present to all his works, if we admit no power can
act but where it is, he must therefore exist every where, because
his works are every where."

16. "As no being can unmake or materially change himself (at least
none can annihilate himself) so God is unchangeable, for no Being
God made can change him and no other Being can exist but what God
made."

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