Dialogue

 1 2| perfections correspondent to each created being; and which are, for
 2 2|           hypothesis, in making a created world exist otherwise than
 3 3|        regard to all other finite created spirits, it necessarily
 4 3|    existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
 5 3|          mind; if not by a finite created mind, yet certainly by the
 6 3|         and were in the beginning created by God, I make no question.
 7 3|        existence, with respect to created minds. Upon reading therefore
 8 3|           be aware that you allow created things, in the beginning,
 9 3|     answer to that, I say, first, created beings might begin to exist
10 3|        exist in the mind of other created intelligences, beside men.
11 3|          no other order of finite created spirits in being, before
12 3|         that which was eternal be created in time? Can anything be
13 3|      begin their existence, or be created, when God decreed they should
14 3|       well as to the minds of all created spirits; yet how could this
15 3|           eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed
16 3|         water, &c. as having been created by God; think you not the