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The condition of existing permanently and inseparably

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  • And if it be not his by inhesion, it can be his no other way but by imputation.
  • Now, it is not required of the severest judge, that, as a judge, he should hate the guilty person, no, although he be guilty originally by inhesion, and not by imputation.
  • But it is intelligible and consistent to say, that objects exist distinct and independent, without any common simple substance or subject of inhesion.
  • A substance, in contrast with an accident, is a being which subsists in itself, and does not merely inhere in another being as in a subject of inhesion.
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