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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 273

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  1. CHAD. IV. achnomlede ed a Supreme Numen
  2. phili who Ansivered che Philalethes, buc chat ic mustnecds be Tomeo
  3. cher Ensebius much Junior. Buc we findins Hieroctes his Philalethes in
  4. Lactaniius, must needs conclude on the contrary, chat Hierocles che
  5. tamous Christiano.mastix, Was noc che lame ith chac Hierocles whro
  6. Weote de Fato. Wrhichis Further evident, trom Anaeas Cazeus in his
  7. Theophrastus; Where Firsthe mentions one Hierocles an Alexandrian
  8. thac hadbeen his Master, Wrhom he highly extols, ani cine puos en nac
  9. iuir cioir si ~ Binooopias DemvbiES r45 ZENET4S, O19 sin TEBOLNHSO diStonaNOC.
  10. But tell me, Tpray yon, are there vet lest amonest vou in A BYDE, any suets
  11. Exponnders os the Arcane Nysteries of Philosophyas Hierocles our Master
  12. vas? Andchis re suppole to be chat Hieroctes, Wwho irote concern.
  13. ins Face and Providence, (il noc alloupon cheGolden Verses.) BuF
  14. alcermard upon occation oE apollonius, ihe C appadocian, or Yy ana.
  15. an he mencions another Hierocles distinct Crom che Former; namely
  16. him, erho had Co boasted oE Apollonius his Miracles, in chele words,
  17. 3
  18. o ANCMCVIO rae Icachi NErcV ENeyZelaL. TCCCMNNS) un o distonaNO, aN P. 24:
  19. o reoBaMO9 ra DavC, 1a, a ISOV i 4BT necOL duxc, Thus APOI-
  20. lonius is convinced of faistrood; but Hlicrocles (not our Master) but he
  21. that boasts ofthe Miracles (of ApOllonius) adds another incredible thine.
  22. And chouph irbe probable, char one ot chele was che Auchor oFthat
  23. Commentary upon che Golden Vertes, (For chac ic Mould be Written
  24. by a Christian is buc a drcam) yet we cannoe cercainly determine
  25. Wrhich ot ehem ic was. Howererchac chis Trierocles, Whro as the Ma-
  26. stix oE Christianity and Champion For The Cods, was notmichltandins.
  27. a protesed alferter oF one Supreme Deity, is clearty manifest alfotrom
  28. Tactantius, in chese Followins mords, Duam tandem nobis altulisti re-
  29. ritatem: nisi quod assertor Deorum, eos ipsos ad ultimum prodidisti:
  30. Proseeutus enim summi Dei laudes, quem Resem, quem MaNIMMM
  31. quem opisicem rerum, quem Fontem bonorum, quem Parentem omnium.
  32. quem Factorem Altoreinque viventium confessus es; ademisti JOvi tO
  33. Regnum: eunque summa potestate depulsum, in Ministrorum numerum
  34. redieisti. Epiloens ergo te inns areuit stultitiae, Vanitatis, Erroris.
  35. Affirmas Deosesse; es illos tamen subjicis et mancipas et Deo, cujus
  36. Religionem conaris evertere. Thoneh jon have entitled jour Book Philale-
  37. ches, vet What Truth have von broncht us therein, unless only this, that
  38. beine an asserter of the Cods (contradictins jour sels) von have et last
  39. betrayed ihose very Cods. For inthe close of jour B00k, proseculne ihe
  40. praises ofthe Supreme God, and confessine himto be the Kine, the Greatest,
  41. the Opisexof the Worid, the Fountain of Good, the Parent of all thines,
  42. the Maher and conserver of all Livine beines, you have by this means
  43. dethroned pour Jupiter, and decradins him from his sovereien Pover,
  44. reduced himinto therank of inferiour Ministers. Wherefore jour Epi
  45. loeue arsues jon enilty of Folly, Vanity and Frror, in that yon both assert
  46. Oods, andyet subject and mancipate them under that one eod, whose
  47. Keligion on endeavour to overthrom. Where we mult contelsre under-
  48. Ctand noc well Lactantins his Lorick; Foralmuch as Hierocles his Zeus
  49. oi fupiter, Was onc and etie lame wich his Supreme 60d (as is al(0
  50. here intimated) and choughhe ackenow ledsed all the ocher Giodsto
  51. bc buc his Inferiour Ministers yet neverthelels did he contend, chat
  52. chese oupht to be Relisioully Worstpped, which iasthe chins chat
  53. Lactantius Mould hare confured. Bucchac Which We here take no.
  54. tice

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 273. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0293?run=74