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12 Our next axiom is that the Agent must be able to P r °f“ c * 
all the changes which happen, It is evident J ' * q® a “ U to the 
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for example, that matter sh g remembered that 
of every potion of « every atom. Bat rfit >» 
law is only a rule that the grav itation of every atom 
must °be V willed, and so known. God’s omniscience is therefore 
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l f • ! that The Cause of all change must be Himself 
subject T „’other words He must be eternal, or uncreated ; 
TrlfTter began to be, He underwent an absolute change. 
I; co“ d not hi the author of his own existence, and conse 
gently could not be the Universal or F>rst Cause self- 
evident that the First Cause must beuncauscd; ^uthorot 
ImldtXefore^rie enable o? the" most “i 
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knowing much , irresistible impulse still to 
conscious of a painful void ‘' Dd “ ir ' U te ™ therefore, 
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