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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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us; and just as reasonable as to infer, because WVisdom is
compar din Scripture to à Trec ol Lite, chat theretore it
eromsin che Farch, hachies Sprins and Fall, is warm’d by
thesun, and fed by. cheRain.
S. VIII. And ehis brines me to the Second Head nhich
proposdtomy (el in ehis Discourles ertichmas toce vou
Why Cod and heavenly thines are afrer this manner represent ed
rous in Foly Scripture. And chetirs Reason LMall ofter, i5.
that we must cither be content eo knom them chis way, Oc
not at aII. l hare already cold vou, and I beliere every
considerine Man is convinc d, chac che Nature and Pertections
ot G0d, as he is in himmselF, are such, chac ic is impostible
re Mould comprehendthem, especially in the present Stace
ot Impertection, lenorance and Corrupeion, in irtrich chis
Worid lies. He is the Object ol none ot oux senles, by
irtrich ire receire all our direct and immediare perception ol
chines; and cherelore il me tnom anv chins ot him ac aIl,
ic must beby Deductions ot Realon, by Analoer and Com
Parison, by resemblins tim eo Comethins chat we de knon
aud arc aequainced ith.
Lis brchis ray re arrive ac the most noble and uletul
Docions re have, and bychis Mechod e ceach and instrua
others. Thus wrhen we rouldhelo a Man eo lome concep.
tionot any chine, char has noc lallen wichin chereach of his
Senles, e do it by comparine ic eo Comethine that alrendy
has, by ofterins him lome Similitude, Relemblanee or AN-
loer, tohelp his Conception. A5 For example, tosire a
Man a Nocion ol a Couneer, eo nhich he is a Stranger, and
eo mare him appretiend its Bounas and Siruation, We PrO
duce a Mapto him; and br chac he obcains as much knov-
leds ot it a5 serres him Por his prelene purpole. Non a Map
is ontr Paper and Ink, diverttrd wich sereral Scrokes and
Lines, erhich in chemselres hare very licele likenels to Parth,
Mountains, Vallers, Lakes and Rivers. Tet none can denr,
buc br Proportion and analoes cher are very instructire;
and il any Mouldimasine chat chole Counerrs arereally Pa-
per, becaule cheMtaps chat reprelent chem are made ot it
and Mouid seriousti dram Conclusionstrom chat Supposition,
he would ex dole bis Understandine, aud mate himlele ridi-
culous: And yec luch as aroue trom eBe Faine Relemblances,
chas cicher Scripeure on Realen eire olche Dirine Accributes
And ODeraTIOnS, aiie procecd in cheir RcaIonineS, 25 il
Th. C muC in ast respects antiver cnc anocher TaII into the
lamo Ablurdicies ehias chole pou be suiley ot, irho Moula
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