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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 75v

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 72r); this page is its left half.

The machine reads it as

  1. 8
  2. betreen oux Fland and GodS POVer: nOx can we dran
  3. Consequencestrom the real nature of one to that oF the o-
  4. ther, rich more justness oF Reason, than e con conclude,
  5. because oux Tland consists of Fingers and Foints, thac there-
  6. Fore the Porver ot God is distinouistid by CucH PArES.
  7. And cheretore toargue, becaule Foreknomlede, as it is in
  8. us, it supposd infallible, cannor contist rith the Contin-
  9. geney ot Lvents, that theretore what e call (0 in God can-
  10. noc, is astar trom Reason, as it vould be to conclude, Be-
  11. cause oux Fyes cannor sec in the dark, that cheretore, wten
  12. Ood is Paid to sec all thines, his Rres must be entiehrend
  13. with a perpetual Sunstine; or becaule ne can t lore or hate
  14. tichout Pastion, thac cheretore when the Scriptures ascribe
  15. ihese to G0d, cher ceach us, thac heis liable eo these AF.
  16. fections asme arc.
  17. We oughe therelore co interpret all these thines, When ac-
  18. tributed toG0d, a5 thus expressd, ontv by mar ot conde-
  19. Scention to our Capacities, in order to help us to conceire
  20. wrhat me are to expect trom him, and What Duty We arcto
  21. par him; and particularlr, thac the terms of tiore Hnomlede,
  22. Predestination nar. et Understandivo and Will, Wrtien a-
  23. Scrib d eo him, are noc eo be raken Arictly or properly, nor
  24. arere cochink chac ther are in him atter the same manner
  25. or in ehe lame sense chat we find them in oux selres; but on
  26. the contrarr, re are ro interpret them onlr by ray ot A.
  27. naloor and Comparison.
  28. Thatisto Par, wrhen e aseribe Foreknomlede tohim, me
  29. nean, chache can no more be surprisd mich anv thino cHAE
  30. happens, than a rise Man, chac Foresces an Fvent, can De
  31. Turpriz d wrhen ic comes to pass; nor can he anv more bc at
  32. a losrhat Be is to do in such a case, than a wise Man can,
  33. irtio is most pertectir acquainted rith all Accidenes nhich
  34. mav obstruet his Detion, and has provided aeainst chem.
  35. S. VII. Sa when God is Caid to predetermine and Foreor-
  36. dain al chines accordins eo the Counsel oF his WVill, theim-
  37. portance ot this Exprectionis, that ai chines depend asmuch
  38. on 60d, as it he had secrled them accordine eo a cerrain
  39. Scheme and Desion, hich he had voluncarils tram d in his
  40. omn mina, withont repard hodto ans ocher consideration be-
  41. Lides thac ot his omn mere Will and Pleature.
  42. IF ehen e understand Predletermination and Predectina-
  43. eion in ehis enaloxous sense, togire us a Nocion of the irre-
  44. sistible Porver oF 60d, and of chac Supree Dominion HC
  45. may exercise orer his Crcatures, is nill help us 1o under.
  46. Aand

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 75v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0150?run=74