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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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be Tome Analoer and Provortion Betreen chemi And MaH
noc the lame Ansiver Paristy chole chat areue asainst he
Dirine Forehnomlede, Predestination, and other Actions
accribured ro 60d, becaule mans chines are suppos d postible
eo ihem wrbich are impossible 10 15.
5. XXI. Ie may be objected against ehis Doctrine, chat il
it be crue, all our Deseripcions ol 60d, and Discourles con-
cerrine him, will be ouls Fisures and Mecaphors; thac he
rii be onts hsuracirels Mercitul, Fuct, Incelligent Oc
Fore nomine: and pertaps in time, Relision and all che
Mysteries chereot, Will Be loc in mere Fieures.
Buc l antiver, thac chere is oreat difference betmeen the
Analosical Reprelencarions oF G0d, and chac erhich we
commoniy cal Fisuratire. The common Use ol Fieures
is to reprelene chines, thar arc orhervile very vell tnomn,
in luch a manner as may maenitr or lessen, heiohten Or 2.
corn the Ideas ehare o chem. And che Delien ot DuL
eins iliem in this toreien Dress, a5 ire mav call iC, i5 10
more our Pastions, and inease our t’ancies more effectualls
ehian the true and naked View of themm is apc 10 d0, OF Per.
haps oughe. And trom henee it 100 olten happens, Chac.
chese bisures are emplor d 1o deceire us, and mate us chink
belter or orse ol thines, than cher realls delerve.
Buc ihe Analosies and Similicudes, chat the Holy Scrip.
tures or our omn Realon trame of Dirine Thines, are ot
anocher Nacure; the Ule, ot them is, 1o eive us Tome HO
rion ot chines whereot ve have no direct Knomlede, and
by that means lead us co the Perception ot the Nature, OE
at leas ol lome of the Proverties and LHects ol Whac oue
Understandines cannoc directly reach; and in chis Cale 10
teach us, hon re are to behave our lelves cormards God,
aud nhat me ore 10 d0, in order 1o obtain a more pertect
Knomlece ot his Auributes.
5. XXII. Ard itereas in ordinaer Gevrative Rexrelen.
cations, the chine expressd by the Lioure, is commonis et
much lels momene chan chac eo which ic is compard; in
ehese Analoeies the Case is ochermile, and the chines re-
prelenced by chem, have much more Realiey and Perfection
in them, chan elie chines by erhich re reprelent cheM.
Thus reiebine a chine in our Minds, is a much more noble
and perfect Action ehan examinine the Gravier ot a B0dV
bu Scale and Balance, ertrich is che orisinal Nocion trom
irhence ic is borrond: and Reflection as in our Underctan.
dines, is rucli more conlicerablem can che reboundine ot
Onc