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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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and oblige us to pertorm those Daries. Buc they, on che
contrary, have Arerchd thele Reprelentations berond the
Scriptures Delion, and set them up in oppolition 10 one a-
nocher; and hare endearour d to pertuade the WVorid thac
cher are inconsistene: intomuch that lome, to ectablis Con-
tingener and Firec- WVill, have denv dOodS Prescience; and
others, to set ux Predestination, hare brousle in a Fatal ne-
cestier ot aH Events.
And not content cheremith, ther have accus d one ano-
ther ot, Impieer and Blasphemr, and mutually chars d cach
the orbers Opinion with al the absurd Consequences ther
Faney d rere deducible Erom ic. Thus the Maincainers oF
Frec- Will charee the Predlestinarians as guiler ot alcribins
Iniastice, Freanns and Crueler to 60d, asmatins him thc
Ruthor oF aU ehe sin and Mlisery thac is in the WVorId:
And on the other hand, ehe Aerters oF Predestination have
accusd the ortiers, as destrovine the Independener and Do-
minion of G0d, and subjectine him eo che Will and IIa.
ours oF his Creatures. And il cither of the Schemes vere
to be taken literally and propertr, the Maincainers oF them
rould And difticuler enouxh to rid chemselres of the Conse.
quences charo d on them: But it e take them ouly as ana-
losical Representations, 25 Phare explain dehem, there rill
beno oround or reason Por these Interences.
S. ZXXVI. And ic vere to be istid, that those who
makce them rould consider, that it cher mould prolecure the
Tame method in creatins the ocher Representations chac chc
Scriptures eire us of G0ds Actributes and Operations, no
les ABCurdiries would Folloi: AS For example, irhen G0d
is said eo DeMercitul, Coring, and Pititul, AII. Sceins, Jea-
lous, Patient or Anery; il chese vere caten literally, and
understood the lame mar, as re find ehem in us, What ab-
Tord and intolerable Consequences nouid follou; and hour
distionourable must cher be supposd to chink of 60d, Who
aseribe such Pactions to him : Pet no Bodu is Bockd at them,
because cher understand them in an analosical Sense. And
it ther would but allon Predestination, Flection, Decrees,
Purpoles and Fioretnomledo, to belono 10G0d with the lame
difference, ther rouldnomore think chemselves oblied 10
charoe chole chat ascribe them eo him rith Blasphems in
the one Case, than in theother.
Tis cheretore incumbent on us to forbear ai Tuch Deduc-
tions, and re tould endesvour to reconcile these sererat
Representations ropether, by ceachins the People, that 60d5
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