Finally, that same being by whom I am conserved cannot have the perception of any perfections that are awanting to him, that is to say, which he has not in himself formally or eminently (by Axiom VII ); for having the power of conserving me, as has been recently said, he should have, a fortiori , the power of conferring these perfections on himself, if they were awanting to him (by Axioms VIII and IX ).
But he has the perception of all the perfections which I discover to be wanting to me, and which I conceive can be in God alone, as I recently proved:
Hence he has all these in himself, formally or eminently, and thus he is God.
Corollary
God has created the sky and the earth and all that is therein contained; and besides this he can make all the things which we clearly conceive in the manner in which we conceive them.
Demonstration
All these things clearly follow from the preceding proposition. For in it we have proved the existence of God, from its being necessary that some one should exist in whom are contained formally or eminently all the perfections of which there is in us any idea.
But we have in us the idea of a power so great, that by the being alone in whom it resides, the sky and the earth, etc. , must have been created, and also that by the same being all the other things which we conceive as possible can be produced.
Hence, in proving the existence of God, we have also proved with it all these things.
Proposition IV