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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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re are utterly incapable ot tramine exact and adequate NO:
tions ot chem. This the Scriptures Trequentls teach uS,
particularlY Sc. Paut in his Rpistle to the Romans, ChaP. TF.
Ver. 33. O the depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and
Knomlede of God. ITo unscarchable are his Fudements, and
Bis WVays pase findine ont. Ver. 34. For who hath tenoon the
mind of ihe Lord, or oho hath been his Connsellor ?
S. IV. (2.) Weoughe to remember, thac the Descriptions
Wrhich re Frame to our selres of God, or ot the Divine AF-
tributes, are not taken trom any direct or immediate Per-
ceprions that we hare ot him or them; buc trom lome Ob.
servations me hare made ot his Works, and trom thc Con-
sideration oF chole Oualifications, that me conceire rould
enable us to pertorm che like. Thusobterrins great Order,
Conreniener, and Hlarmonr in all che sereral Parts oF the
WVorid, and perceirins chacererr thins is ad apted and tends
eo the Prelerration and Adrancase oF the Whole; We are aDE
toconsider, thar re could noc concrive and secrle chinss in (0
excellent and prover a manner mithour sreat Wildom: and
thence conclude, that God nhiohas thus concerted and let-
Eled Macters, must have Wisdom; and harins then ascrib d
to him Wisdom, because re sec the effects and retule ot it
in his Works, re proceed and conclude, chat he has like.
rise Foretiohe and Understandine, because We CannOE Con
ceire Wisdom ithout chese, and because il re ere todo
wrhac re sec he has done, me could noc expect to pertorm
it, ithout che exercile oF thele Paculties.
And ic doth truls Follon From bence, that Ood must either
hare thele, or ocher Faculties and Porvers equiralent to
ihem, and adequate co thele mieter Lifteats irhich procced
trom chem. And because re do noc tnom irhat his l’aculcies
are in themselres, We sire them the Names of thole Poivers,
that me lind rould be necessary eo us in order tO pro
duce such effects, and cal them Wisdom, Understandins.
and Fore knomleds: but ac the lame time Wre cannot buE
De sensible, that they are of a nature alcogether different
trom ours, and chat re hare no direct and prover Nocion
or Conception ot them. Onls re are lure, thac cher have
effects like unto thole, thac do proceed trom Wildom
Understandine, and Fiore lnomlede in us: and that irhen
out Wroins hal co resemble itiem in an particular, 25 to
Perfection, il l bs Eeason ot some vanc or detect in chese
Oualitications.
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