The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 79
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- CHAP. II. Atheists except acainst Providence
- but not Able, or hemas Able buc noc Willins; or Thircly, he
- cher Willine nor ABIC; Or else LastIY, he was boch AblC and Willine
- This Lacter is the only ching ehat anlvers Fully coche Nocion of200d
- Nom chat the suppoled Crcator oF aII chings as noc chus boch ABIC
- and Willins eoabolim aH Prils, is plain, because chen chere voula
- hare been no Fvils at alt lefi. Wheretore lince there is Cuch a Delure ot
- Erils orerkorins all, it must needsbe, chat cieher he ras Willine and
- noc Able to remore them, and ehen he as impotent, or ele he ras
- Able and not Willins, and chen he was envions, or LaHly he masnci-
- cher Able nor Willins, and chen he Was boch Impotent and En
- vions.
- ZVTT. Inthe PWelSih Place, the Acheists Furcher dispure in chis
- mmanner. IF theWorid vere made by anr Dcier chen it vould bC
- sovernedby a Providence, and it there vere any providence, it must
- appCAE IN TIUMAnC APTAIrS. BuE here ic is plain, chac 2II is Tohu and
- Bohu, Chaos and Confusion: Thines happenins alikee 10 aIl, 10 che
- Wisc and Foolictr, Relisions and Impious, Virnous and Vicious.
- (Por chese Names che Acheist cannoc chuse buc malce ulc oF, chonon
- by calins amay Nacural Moralier, chey really destroy che Thines.)
- From Whenee itis concluded, chac iIl chinrs Honc up and donn. 10
- cher are aricated and driven by the Tumblina Billons oF Carclese
- Fortune and Chance. The Impieties oF Dionysius, his scottine AB.
- ules oF Religion, and whacloeret was then Sacred, oi worthipe un.
- der the Nocion oF a G0d, iere most nocorions; and vet il is ob.
- Terved, that he Pared never a jot che worle For il. Hune nec OIyr-
- Dius Jupiter fulmine pereussit, nec : seulapius misero dinturnoque morbo
- tabescentem interemit, verum in suo lectulo mortuus, in Tympanidis roeunt
- illatus est, eamque potestatem quam ipse per scelus nactus erat, quast
- justam e legitimam, haereditatis loco tradidit: Neither did Jupicer
- lempius strihe him rith a Thunderbolt, nor N. Cculapius instret aux lan-
- suistine Disease upon him, but he died in his bed, and mas honourably
- interred, and that Porver which he hadwichealy acquired. he transmit-
- ted as a fust and Lamful Tnheritance, to his Posterity. And Dioee
- nesthe Crnick chouph much a Theist, could noc buc ackenom ledee,
- that Harpalus a Famons Robber or Pirare in chole cimes, wrtro com-
- micting many Villanons actions, nocmichstandins lived prosperou
- ly, did chereby Testimonium dicere contra Deos, bear testimony a
- sainst the Cods. Thoush ic has been objected by che Theists, and
- thoushe cobca Arons arsument For Providence, thac there vere (0
- many Tables huns ux in Temples, ThC MONIEnIS OF Such a5 hav.
- ins praycd toche Gods in Storms and Tempests, hae escaped Strix.
- irracke; Vet as Diagoras observed, Nusquam pieti sunt qui Naufraeiuun
- fecerunt, there are no Tables extant of those of ihem who nere Ship-
- vrackt. Wheretore ic as noc considered by chese Theists, hou
- many oE ehem chac praved as well 1o che Gods, did nocvichstand-
- ing suster Stripracle; 25 also hon mans oF chole, irtrich never
- made any Derorional Addreses ac all, 10 any Dcicy, escaped equal
- Dangers oC Scorms and T emmpells.
- Mibre
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 79. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0109?run=74