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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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100) mhereinthe Nature of God consisted. Si-
monides requir da days time eo recura him an
Ansver tohis Ouestion; and wohen he mas asté d
the next day for his Ansiver, he desir d Evo
days: and doubled his time as often as the Ty-
rant aste d himthe Ouestion. Eliero mas a lc-
de surpriz d and asté d him ohat he meant by
this vay of proccedins. Simonides reply d.
Because the loncer he consider dthe matter, the
more difficult it was tohim +.
BuE che Lighe oF che Gospel, together
with ehat clear and distinet Mechod ot Rea-
Tonins introdue d by the nem PhiloToDhs,
has quite alter d thetace oF chines: And iC
Tercullian Cnrho maintain d the. J Materiality
ot 60d) as a licile mistaken when ne
Taid, I The meanest Mechanick amone Chris-
tians apprehends Cod, and can ansiver that
Ouestion, Wwhich so puxzled the greatest of, the
eathen Philosophers; Yet re can no rich
contidence produce our Notion ot Cod, and
expose betore themost acute Realoners thC
srounds e proceed on. We do not pre-
rend tohare ans positire direet NOtion oE
+ RogeS me quid, aut qualis siE DeUS. AuctOTC
utar simonide: de quo cum quaesirisset hoc idem
Hiero errannus, deliberandi causa sibi unum diem
postularit. Cum idem ex eo postridie quaereret,
biduum pecirit. Cum saepius duplicaret numerum
dierum, admiran (q; Hliero Guxreret cur ita Faceret;
Quia quanto, inquit, diutius considero, tanto mini
ses ridetur oblcurius.
+ Ouisnceabit Deum Corvus ete, et s Spiritus
CA: Lib. 2. cont. Marc. Cap. 16.
lFirst Volume of the APOIOBY OE the Fathets, late.
es traustated inco F. NBL. caB. 46. of X extul. A p8l.