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We demonstrate that God is simple.First, by the testimonies of sacred Scripture, which declare God spirit, light, and not constituted from parts.THIRD, because our Savior (John 4:24) attributes to God that He is spirit: yet it is not true that when God is called spirit something corporeal is indicated.Fourth, because He is the first being.For the first being exists from itself and is composed from none.For whatever is later from its components is therefore not simply the first being, nor altogether independent.
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Demonstramus Deum esse simplicem. PRIMO, sacrae Scripturae testimoniis, quae Deum spiritum, lucem, & non constitutum ex partibus declarant. TERTIO, quia Servator noster Joh. 4.24. Deo tribuit, ut sit spiritus: verum tamen non est, Deum, cum spiritus dicitur, aliquid corporeum indigitari. QUARTO, quia est ens primum. Nam ens primum a seipso exsistit, & a nullo componitur. Quicquid enim ex componentibus est posterius, adeoque non est simpliciter ens primum, nec omnino independens.