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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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dictions vanistr, and that ehie APertions are noc ontu certain.
but plain and easy Truchs, chat may be conceir d richoue
any ereac disticuler.
Ouehe e not then to suspect our omn Ienorance, iten
e laney Contradictions in the descriptions eiren us of the
Mycteries ot our Faich and Relision? And ouphe re noc
corvait rith patience, till e come to Hicaven, the PrODCE
School irhere these chines are to be learned? and in the
mean time acquiesce in that Lioht thC FIolV Spirit has oiven
es in the Scripeures; Wrhich, 25 I hare Mem d, is susticiene
eodircet us in our present Circumsances.
S. XXXII. The chird Use I BaII matre oF this Doctrine,
15 to teach us what ansiver ire are to sire to chat AreumenE
ehar has, (0 purzled Mantind, and donc (o much mischiet
in the worid. IE runs thus:  IF O0d Forelee or predecti.
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nate chac I AaH DC PaVd, I MaII infallibly be 10; and il
heForelee or hare precestinated that I Mall De damnd, ic
isunaroidabie. And theretore it is no matter what Ido,
ox hou I behave u Celt in this Lite. Many AnsiverS
trave Been siren to this, itich I MaII nOL AE pretenE exa-
mine: I MalI onlv add, thac il Gods Fore-hnomleds vere
exactr contormable eo ours, the consequence nould seem
rust; buc inasmuch as they arc ot as different a nature as
any ero Faculcies ot our Souls, il doth noc Follon (De.
cause our Foreliehe oF Rvenes, il e suppole ic intallible,
nust presuppose a Neceltuy in them) that cheretore the Di-
vine Prescience must require the lame necelsitr in order 10
EtS beino certain. Ic is erue, re call Gods Fore-enomlede
and our omn by the Came Name; buc chis is noc trem anv
real litenels in che nature ot the faculties, buc trom lome
Provortion observable in the effects ot them: Both havine
ehiis adrantase, thac ther prevent ans surprire on the Per-
con endon d rith them.
Nom as ic is true, that no Contingener or Frcedom in
ehe Creatures, can any war deceire or surprize G0d, Due
him to a loss, or oblive him to alter his mealures: (0 on the
other hand ic is likerise true, thac the Dirine Prescience
doch noc hinder Frcedom; and a thine may cither DC Or noc
De nocwithstandine that Forehobe et il irhich e ascribe
10 60d. When cheretore it is allede d, thac il O0d Fore.
sees I Mail De Pared, y Salvation is infanible, ehis doth not
Follon; because the Fore hnomlede olGod is not like Mans,
wrhich requires Necestiey in the Rvene, in order to ils beine
certain, but ot another nature consistent mith Contingenes:
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