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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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Over Pagan Oracles.
vould hnom of him, Wrhether it conld be done or no. Navius havine
performed his Anguratine Ceremonies, replied, that the thine mixht be
done. Wherenpon Prileus declared, what his Thoncht mas, namely, that
arberstone mieht beent in two mith a RaZOr. Navius willed them 10
mahe trial: Wherefore a Whetstone beine broncht immediatty into the
Courr; it mas inihe sieht of the Kine and allthe People oivided witha
RaZOr. Bur ehie Predictions amonst hose PaganS, Were For the most
part only oF the Former Rind, suck as procccded eeriy From che
Natural Presaeine Faculty oF chele Demons; chis appcarins tromhence.
because their Oracles were oscen expressed ambienonsty, (0 as that they
miphebe raken cicher mar; those Demons chemtelves, it sCeMS, De-
ins chen nOE ConSdenE OF the Event: as alto because they ivere
Comerimes plaiuly miltaken in thCEVENES. And Crom hence it WaS.
thac chey seldom Ventured to Foretel, any Pvents remorely distant.
buc ouly whac vere nigh at hand, and Mortly eocome co paIS; and
cheresore mipht be Probably Conjectured oF, trom chinssthen in Bc-
ing. NocwichCondino which, we acknom ledge, ThaLTMErC arE COmC
em inttances oF Predictionsamone (E thE PaSanS, OF che ocher Kind.
Such as chac intimated by Cicero in his Book oF Divination, Where
he declareh etie Doctrine oF Diodorus concernins Necessuy and Con-
lingency; non necesse fuisse Cypielum reenare Corinchi, quanquam
ad Millesimo ante anno. Apollinis oraculo editum esset, ihat it vas not
Necessarus, Cyplelus ihe Tyrant, Bould reien at Corivct, ihoneh that
vere a ihins Predicted by Apollos Oracte, a thonsand gears before. AS
allo chis recorded by Varro, oF ectius Valens, an Augur in che Time
OE Romulus, Who when Rome was a buildins, From che Ayins OC
Evelve Vultures, PrelaB ed that FhC COnFIMUIAHCC OF chat City would
Detor Tvelve Hundred vears: Which scems to have been accordine-
y sulsilled, in che rear oF our Lord Pour tiundred Ecey and Ave, im-
mediarly aster the death oF che Third Valentinian (Wtom Come malce
co beche laCt R cal EMpCTOUT OF thC WN est OT KomC) wheu censericus
Chevandal, cook the Ciey che second cime, and Ercd ic. Buc above
All ChatoE he Sibyls; OF Whose Prophecies such chives are recorded
Sy Poxan Vricers, as makces it very suspicious, chaccher did Foretel che
comine oE our Sariour Christ, and che cimes oF Christianiey; bue
vere chese and the litce Pason Prophecies, Real, chen must chey
decdshave had Come bixher Oripinal, chan che Natural Presaeins Fa-
cultu oF cheir Demons, especially chose oF the Sibyls; who FOr OuxHE
veknon, miphe bc as well artisted Super. Naturally, to prediet our
daviour Chrilt, amonest ehie Pagans in ihC W est; a5 Balaam was in
he Ent.
Buctiere che scripture iriumphech over eaganism, and all its ora.
Eles and Divinations; chere beins containe d in ic (o many unqueltio-
nable predictions oF Evenes to tollo a lons eime atter, and such a5
ean be impured co nochine buc che supernatural Foreknomledse and
Omniscience oF Ood AImipher. As For example, chole concernive
he Messiah, Or our saviour Christ, delivered by facob, Moses, David.
saias. feremy. Daniel, and most OF che Prophers; Foretelline fundry
parcicular circymstances oF hiscomine, and chac grand F vent whictu
ollomed alteri, oF the censites or Pasans (0 seneral Reception avicl
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