He knows also that Nothing cannot produce a Being; there ore SOmething must have existed from Eternity.
In the next place, man knows, by an intuitive certainty, that bare NOTHING CAN NO MORE PRODUCE ANY REAL BEING, THAN IT CAN BE EQUAL TO TWO RIGHT ANGLES.

If a man knows not that nonentity, or the absence of all being, cannot be equal to two right angles, it is impossible he should know any demonstration in Euclid.

If, therefore, we know there is some real being, and that nonentity cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that FROM ETERNITY THERE HAS BEEN SOMETHING; since what was not from eternity had a beginning; and what had a beginning must be produced by something else.
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And that eternal Being must be most powerful.
Next, it is evident, that what had its being and beginning from another, must also have all that which is in and belongs to its being from another too.

All the powers it has must be owing to and received from the same source.