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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 82v

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 81r); this page is its left half.

The machine reads it as

  1. be Tome Analoer and Provortion Betreen chemi And MaH
  2. noc the lame Ansiver Paristy chole chat areue asainst he
  3. Dirine Forehnomlede, Predestination, and other Actions
  4. accribured ro 60d, becaule mans chines are suppos d postible
  5. eo ihem wrbich are impossible 10 15.
  6. 5. XXI. Ie may be objected against ehis Doctrine, chat il
  7. it be crue, all our Deseripcions ol 60d, and Discourles con-
  8. cerrine him, will be ouls Fisures and Mecaphors; thac he
  9. rii be onts hsuracirels Mercitul, Fuct, Incelligent Oc
  10. Fore nomine: and pertaps in time, Relision and all che
  11. Mysteries chereot, Will Be loc in mere Fieures.
  12. Buc l antiver, thac chere is oreat difference betmeen the
  13. Analosical Reprelencarions oF G0d, and chac erhich we
  14. commoniy cal Fisuratire. The common Use ol Fieures
  15. is to reprelene chines, thar arc orhervile very vell tnomn,
  16. in luch a manner as may maenitr or lessen, heiohten Or 2.
  17. corn the Ideas ehare o chem. And che Delien ot DuL
  18. eins iliem in this toreien Dress, a5 ire mav call iC, i5 10
  19. more our Pastions, and inease our t’ancies more effectualls
  20. ehian the true and naked View of themm is apc 10 d0, OF Per.
  21. haps oughe. And trom henee it 100 olten happens, Chac.
  22. chese bisures are emplor d 1o deceire us, and mate us chink
  23. belter or orse ol thines, than cher realls delerve.
  24. Buc ihe Analosies and Similicudes, chat the Holy Scrip.
  25. tures or our omn Realon trame of Dirine Thines, are ot
  26. anocher Nacure; the Ule, ot them is, 1o eive us Tome HO
  27. rion ot chines whereot ve have no direct Knomlede, and
  28. by that means lead us co the Perception ot the Nature, OE
  29. at leas ol lome of the Proverties and LHects ol Whac oue
  30. Understandines cannoc directly reach; and in chis Cale 10
  31. teach us, hon re are to behave our lelves cormards God,
  32. aud nhat me ore 10 d0, in order 1o obtain a more pertect
  33. Knomlece ot his Auributes.
  34. 5. XXII. Ard itereas in ordinaer Gevrative Rexrelen.
  35. cations, the chine expressd by the Lioure, is commonis et
  36. much lels momene chan chac eo which ic is compard; in
  37. ehese Analoeies the Case is ochermile, and the chines re-
  38. prelenced by chem, have much more Realiey and Perfection
  39. in them, chan elie chines by erhich re reprelent cheM.
  40. Thus reiebine a chine in our Minds, is a much more noble
  41. and perfect Action ehan examinine the Gravier ot a B0dV
  42. bu Scale and Balance, ertrich is che orisinal Nocion trom
  43. irhence ic is borrond: and Reflection as in our Underctan.
  44. dines, is rucli more conlicerablem can che reboundine ot
  45. Onc

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 82v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0164?run=74