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How can Leibniz' God (as a monad Himself) cause other monads if he admits that substances are not intercausal?

This is specifically in reference to his *Discourse On Metaphysics* in which in paragraph XIV says "A particular substance never acts on another particular substance" and in paragraph XVI says "...God being the true cause of substances."

If God Himself is a substance, how can Leibniz take all of these to be true?
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"Created substances depend on God, who conserves them and even produces them continually by a kind of emanation as we produce our thoughts” (Discourse on Metaphysics). God is the ultimate source of substances, so this doesn't contradict substances not acting on other substances.