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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 88v

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 89r); this page is its left half.

The machine reads it as

  1. Rnomleds is oE another nature than ours; and chat tho we
  2. cannot, in our mas ot Thinkins, certainls toresee what is
  3. trec and continsent, vet Cod mas do it by chat POIVeE
  4. irhich antirers to Prescience in him, or rather in truth.
  5. suxplies the Place oF it. Nor is ic ans monder chat ne
  6. cannor conceire hor ehis is done, since e have no direct or
  7. provernotion of 60dS Knomleds; nor can me erer in chis
  8. Lite expect to comprehend ic, ans more than a Mapi who
  9. nerer la can expect todiscern the Shiape and Figure ot B9.
  10. dies at a distance, Whil he continues Blind.
  11. S. XXXVII. Thc Etch use re are eo matre oF wrtat has
  12. been Caid, is to teach us ho e are to behare our sclres in
  13. a Churct, irhiere cither oF these Schemes is sectled and
  14. taughtas a Doctrine: and here I chink the Resolutionis ca (V.
  15. WVe ouott co be quiet, and noc unleasonably eo disturb the
  16. Peace oF the Church; much less Mould we endeavour tO ex-
  17. Dole hat Me protesses, by alledoins Absurdities and Incon-
  18. Listencies in ic. On che concrary, ve are oblisd to take
  19. Pains, to Mer that che pretended Consequences do not Fol-
  20. lor, 25 in truth ther do noc, and to discourase aI thac
  21. makethem, as Fnemies ot Peace, and False Acculers oftheir
  22. Brethren, by chareins them wich Consequences ther dis.
  23. omn, and chat hare no other Foundation bur the MaterS
  24. lenorance.
  25. For in truth, as has been already Bewd, it such Interen-
  26. ces be allon d haroly anr one Actribute or Operation of
  27. Cod, 25 deserib d in Scripture, will be tree trom the C avils
  28. ot perverse Men.
  29. Tis oblerrable, thatby che lame may of Reatonins, and
  30. By chelame Tort ot Arsuments, by which lome endeavour
  31. 1o destror che Dirine Prescience, and render his Decrees
  32. odious, Corta lons ag0 in Cicero attack d che other Atri-
  33. Butes, and undercook to prove, thac G0d can neither have
  34. Reason nor Understandine. Wisdom nor Prudence, nor a.
  35. ny ocher Vertue. And it ire undersand these literally and
  36. properir, (0 a5 to lignitr chelame irhen apply d 1o C0d ana
  37. roMen, ic will noc be casy to ansiver his Arouments: DuF
  38. it vre conceire them to be alcrib d eo him by Proportion
  39. and Analoer, thac is, il we mean no morenhien re apply
  40. chemtoCod, than that hehas lome Porvers and Faculties,
  41. tho not ot the lame nature, which arc analogous to thele,
  42. and irhich vield him all ehe Adrantages irhich chese coutd
  43. sire him il hehad them; enablins him to produce aIl the
  44. su0d efects which ne sec consequent to them, when in che
  45. Preatest

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 88v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0176?run=74