Q.E.D.
Note.- (28:8) As certain things must be produced immediately by God,
namely those things which necessarily follow from his absolute nature,
through the means of these primary attributes, which, nevertheless,
can neither exist nor be conceived without God, it follows:-
(28:9) 1. That God is absolutely the proximate cause of those things
immediately produced by him. (10) I say absolutely, not
after his kind, as is usually stated. (11) For the of God
cannot either exist or be conceived without a cause
([xv] and [xxiv] , Coroll.).
(28:12) 2. That God cannot properly be styled the remote cause of
individual things, except for the sake of distinguishing
these from what he immediately produces, or rather from
what follows from his absolute nature. (13) For, by
remote cause, we understand a cause which is in no way
conjoined to the effect. (14) But all things which are,
are in God, and so depend on God, that without him they
can neither be nor be conceived.
PROP. [XXIX] Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all
things are conditioned to exist and operate in
a particular manner by the necessity of the
divine nature.
Proof.- (29:1) Whatsoever is, is in God ( [xv] ). (2) But God cannot be
called a thing contingent.
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