That Difficulties arising merely from the Nature of Eternity, are not to be
regarded, because equal in all Suppositions
Of the Absolute Impossibility of an eternal Succession of dependent Beings,
existing without any original independent cause at all
PROP. III. That that Immutable and Independent Being, which has existed
from Eternity, without any external cause of its Existence, must be
Self-existent, that is, Necessarily-existing
Of the true Idea of Self-existence; That it is the Idea of a Being, the
Supposition of whose Non-Existence is an express Contradiction
That every Man may be more certain of the Being of a Supreme Indepen-
dent Cause, than he can be of any thing else besides his own Existence
Of the Idea of God, including Self-Existence