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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 74r

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 73v); this page is its right half.

The machine reads it as

  1. re are utterly incapable ot tramine exact and adequate NO:
  2. tions ot chem. This the Scriptures Trequentls teach uS,
  3. particularlY Sc. Paut in his Rpistle to the Romans, ChaP. TF.
  4. Ver. 33. O the depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and
  5. Knomlede of God. ITo unscarchable are his Fudements, and
  6. Bis WVays pase findine ont. Ver. 34. For who hath tenoon the
  7. mind of ihe Lord, or oho hath been his Connsellor ?
  8. S. IV. (2.) Weoughe to remember, thac the Descriptions
  9. Wrhich re Frame to our selres of God, or ot the Divine AF-
  10. tributes, are not taken trom any direct or immediate Per-
  11. ceprions that we hare ot him or them; buc trom lome Ob.
  12. servations me hare made ot his Works, and trom thc Con-
  13. sideration oF chole Oualifications, that me conceire rould
  14. enable us to pertorm che like. Thusobterrins great Order,
  15. Conreniener, and Hlarmonr in all che sereral Parts oF the
  16. WVorid, and perceirins chacererr thins is ad apted and tends
  17. eo the Prelerration and Adrancase oF the Whole; We are aDE
  18. toconsider, thar re could noc concrive and secrle chinss in (0
  19. excellent and prover a manner mithour sreat Wildom: and
  20. thence conclude, that God nhiohas thus concerted and let-
  21. Eled Macters, must have Wisdom; and harins then ascrib d
  22. to him Wisdom, because re sec the effects and retule ot it
  23. in his Works, re proceed and conclude, chat he has like.
  24. rise Foretiohe and Understandine, because We CannOE Con
  25. ceire Wisdom ithout chese, and because il re ere todo
  26. wrhac re sec he has done, me could noc expect to pertorm
  27. it, ithout che exercile oF thele Paculties.
  28. And ic doth truls Follon From bence, that Ood must either
  29. hare thele, or ocher Faculties and Porvers equiralent to
  30. ihem, and adequate co thele mieter Lifteats irhich procced
  31. trom chem. And because re do noc tnom irhat his l’aculcies
  32. are in themselres, We sire them the Names of thole Poivers,
  33. that me lind rould be necessary eo us in order tO pro
  34. duce such effects, and cal them Wisdom, Understandins.
  35. and Fore knomleds: but ac the lame time Wre cannot buE
  36. De sensible, that they are of a nature alcogether different
  37. trom ours, and chat re hare no direct and prover Nocion
  38. or Conception ot them. Onls re are lure, thac cher have
  39. effects like unto thole, thac do proceed trom Wildom
  40. Understandine, and Fiore lnomlede in us: and that irhen
  41. out Wroins hal co resemble itiem in an particular, 25 to
  42. Perfection, il l bs Eeason ot some vanc or detect in chese
  43. Oualitications.
  44. e

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 74r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0147?run=74