Further, I cannot exist without being conserved, so long as I exist, either by myself, supposing I possess the power, or by another who has this power (by Axioms I and II ).

But I exist, and yet I have not the power of self-conservation, as I have recently proved. Hence I am conserved by another.

Further, that by which I am conserved has in itself formally or eminently all that is in me (by Axiom IV ).

But I have in me the perception of many perfections that are awanting to me, and that also of the idea of God (by Definitions II and VIII ). Hence the perception of these same perfections is in him by whom I am conserved.