# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0486 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0486?run=74 # Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137) # Folio 466, page id 1066509719:0486 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1066509719&page=486 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1066509719/jpgs/default/00000486.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 66 lines, status machine # Lines: 66 recognised, mean confidence 0.83 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. The Hlebrems NNotior BOOR. miration of both these Worids, the Visible and the invisible, have no onty Deified the mhole of them, but also their several Parts, as the Sun and the Moon, and the hole Heaven, they not scrupline to call ihese Cods. Which Notion and Languase of theirs, Moles respected in ihose vords of his, Thou LordcheKins oF Cods; he thereby declarine II transcendeney os the Supreme Cod above all those his subjects callec Cods. To the lame purpole Philo iriteth allo in his Commentari upon che DecalOgUE, raoar 3V Tl TouTW ZDeclaer à TE. odL OI, 785 adt _sS Qod pin reconvicop, e is n daecore n adara rvices 5(, 1a Enae zou, ad tN pa S A NNCoV ra qVouua, nad d jigovev, Erct is nariie ae nalt TEV O NOuII X BNCOV. ny NeCorOV 5870 n, iceratov cod Y sEN ua suVVToc eete er aurois, Evae Y arCoraT VOuIZCIV Xi n, TuaV Dedv. W herefore removine all such imposture, Let us morstip no Beines, that are by Nature Bra ibers and Germane 10 us, thoneh endued vith far more pure and. ta mortal Essences thanme are. Forall Created thines assuch, have akirta of Germane and Brotherly Equality withone another, the maker os thines beine their common Father. But let us deeptys infiox fust and most holy commandment in our breasts, to actenom ledee and ot sip One onty Hiehest Cod. And again astermards, 3001 pote inis, y AlunS, i, 28 ovuraevtos SpgVS T ny nosus, ny p er avrois onoq eesdrv use cos Decir reGronolr i Dexand rai, depae rarsor, 285 imuno s5 58 aie zoul oruvbroiles. They who morstip the sun, and ihe Moon, and ihe hole ven and Worid, and the Principal parts of them as Cods, err, in ia they morship the subjects of the Prince; Whercas the Prince atone oust 1o be worthixped. Thusaccordins t0 Philo, thc Pasan Polythes contisted, in sivins Relisious Worthip, bclides the Supreme Cod, ocher Created understandins Beings, and Pares oF the Wortd, motu pure andimmortal chan men. Elavius Josephus in his sucaick Anciquicies, extolline abrabam Wisdom and Pietr, vriteth thus concernins him, TecrO SV 7o Dedo ae ropivacadat orjucerdo incoverae, wrhriet some vould underllalt in ehiis manner, ihat Abratiam nas the first oho publickly declarea, ida there vas one God the Demiurgus or maker of the whole worid; a5Il mankind besides at thac time, had suppoled, the woridro have bec madenoc by one buc by Many Cods. Bur the true meanins ol 1ho ordsischis, That abraham Was thC FrH, who in thac degeverda age, Dublickely declared chat the Maker OF ihc whole morid, na theOnc only Cod, and alone 1o be RelisiouAy Worhipped: accore ingly as ic follons altermards in che Came iriter, cd naenas exa ut rlo riulionaei ruv dizae ssiaer ae roveucr, to whom alone men oueht t0 eta honour and thanks. And the reaton hereot is chere also set doni 2 ) NOICV, ei na 22 r e is _Sa COViaD oVVCMCI, 4 7 Xegsariv 2iv 181 rapexew Euacor nat s nar oinetaer igWv. Because all those other berne that vere then morstipped as Eods, Whatsoever any os them con tributed 1o ihe bappines of mantind, they did it not by their ou pourer, but by his appointment and command; he instancins in che dl and Moon, and Farth and Sea, wtich are all made and ordered ahigher pover and providence, by che Force Whereot chey contta buteto oux ucilier. AS it he ould have Baid, ThatnO Created BCinG. ouphe co be Relixioully worshipped, bur rhe Creator onty. Andih a8reetta 66 n terman 11 dec n eu joure PlIVII nedon 1e Enon anc 1