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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 466

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  1. The Hlebrems NNotior
  2. BOOR.
  3. miration of both these Worids, the Visible and the invisible, have no
  4. onty Deified the mhole of them, but also their several Parts, as the Sun
  5. and the Moon, and the hole Heaven, they not scrupline to call ihese
  6. Cods. Which Notion and Languase of theirs, Moles respected in ihose
  7. vords of his, Thou LordcheKins oF Cods; he thereby declarine II
  8. transcendeney os the Supreme Cod above all those his subjects callec
  9. Cods. To the lame purpole Philo iriteth allo in his Commentari
  10. upon che DecalOgUE, raoar 3V Tl TouTW ZDeclaer à TE. odL OI, 785
  11. adt _sS Qod pin reconvicop, e is n daecore n adara rvices 5(, 1a
  12. Enae zou, ad tN pa S A NNCoV ra qVouua, nad d jigovev, Erct is nariie ae nalt
  13. TEV O NOuII X BNCOV. ny NeCorOV 5870 n, iceratov cod Y sEN ua suVVToc
  14. eete er aurois, Evae Y arCoraT VOuIZCIV Xi n, TuaV Dedv. W herefore removine
  15. all such imposture, Let us morstip no Beines, that are by Nature Bra
  16. ibers and Germane 10 us, thoneh endued vith far more pure and. ta
  17. mortal Essences thanme are. Forall Created thines assuch, have akirta
  18. of Germane and Brotherly Equality withone another, the maker os
  19. thines beine their common Father. But let us deeptys infiox
  20. fust and most holy commandment in our breasts, to actenom ledee and ot
  21. sip One onty Hiehest Cod. And again astermards, 3001 pote inis, y
  22. AlunS, i, 28 ovuraevtos SpgVS T ny nosus, ny p er avrois onoq eesdrv use
  23. cos Decir reGronolr i Dexand rai, depae rarsor, 285 imuno s5 58 aie zoul
  24. oruvbroiles. They who morstip the sun, and ihe Moon, and ihe hole
  25. ven and Worid, and the Principal parts of them as Cods, err, in ia
  26. they morship the subjects of the Prince; Whercas the Prince atone oust
  27. 1o be worthixped. Thusaccordins t0 Philo, thc Pasan Polythes
  28. contisted, in sivins Relisious Worthip, bclides the Supreme Cod,
  29. ocher Created understandins Beings, and Pares oF the Wortd, motu
  30. pure andimmortal chan men.
  31. Elavius Josephus in his sucaick Anciquicies, extolline abrabam
  32. Wisdom and Pietr, vriteth thus concernins him, TecrO SV 7o
  33. Dedo ae ropivacadat orjucerdo incoverae, wrhriet some vould underllalt
  34. in ehiis manner, ihat Abratiam nas the first oho publickly declarea, ida
  35. there vas one God the Demiurgus or maker of the whole worid; a5Il
  36. mankind besides at thac time, had suppoled, the woridro have bec
  37. madenoc by one buc by Many Cods. Bur the true meanins ol 1ho
  38. ordsischis, That abraham Was thC FrH, who in thac degeverda
  39. age, Dublickely declared chat the Maker OF ihc whole morid, na
  40. theOnc only Cod, and alone 1o be RelisiouAy Worhipped: accore
  41. ingly as ic follons altermards in che Came iriter, cd naenas exa ut
  42. rlo riulionaei ruv dizae ssiaer ae roveucr, to whom alone men oueht t0 eta
  43. honour and thanks. And the reaton hereot is chere also set doni
  44. 2 ) NOICV, ei na 22 r e is _Sa COViaD oVVCMCI, 4 7 Xegsariv 2iv 181
  45. rapexew Euacor nat s nar oinetaer igWv. Because all those other berne
  46. that vere then morstipped as Eods, Whatsoever any os them con
  47. tributed 1o ihe bappines of mantind, they did it not by their ou
  48. pourer, but by his appointment and command; he instancins in che dl
  49. and Moon, and Farth and Sea, wtich are all made and ordered
  50. ahigher pover and providence, by che Force Whereot chey contta
  51. buteto oux ucilier. AS it he ould have Baid, ThatnO Created BCinG.
  52. ouphe co be Relixioully worshipped, bur rhe Creator onty. Andih
  53. a8reetta
  54. 66
  55. n
  56. terman
  57. 11
  58. dec
  59. n eu
  60. joure
  61. PlIVII
  62. nedon
  63. 1e
  64. Enon
  65. anc
  66. 1

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 466. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0486?run=74