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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 468

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  1. P. T. C, 36
  2. Fol. 247.
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  4. The Pacans Many Cods, BoOK .
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  8. that commandment acainst stranse Worship (no commonly called L
  9. dolatry) is this, that no man Bould morstie any os the creatures what-
  10. soever, neither angel, nor sphere, nor Star, nor any of the four Ele
  11. ments, nor angthine made ont of them. For though he that morstips these
  12. thines, nons that the Lord is God, and superiour 10 them allu and
  13. vorstrips those Creatures no othermise, thanEnoand the rest of ibat asc
  14. did, vet is he nevertheless guilty of Stranse WorsBip, or Sdolatry. Anc
  15. thac, ascex the times oE Fnosp also, in succcedins ages, the Poly-
  16. abeism OE the Pagan Nations, was no ocher than chis, thc morstuip
  17. pins (Dehides OnC SUIPreme COd) OF OLHEF crCated BcinSs, as the
  18. Ministers oF his Providence, and as Midales Ox Mediators Detrixa
  19. Elim and Men, is declared litemile Dy Maimonides (in tis More Ne
  20. vochim) cohare beenche lniverlal BelicF oF all the Febrens or sens
  21. IBIBZI MZIhRPEWHVIIR AI N D I hy e yI is
  22. IN TISHIBH PB iNVB ZWN NIWSHW GINZ ID BN RhI BIZI p 1h30319-
  23. GIBA ZN PINII GIBVI ANIZ ZWE s NHI NISW L_yMI BIIZNI
  24. NEB NBD AII EZRMI pIZI BNIZ IIDN RIEW 2ZIE ZHBI N res VIA
  25. VFI iZB IHXI PIu Tou Lnon that whosoever commilteth Idolatry
  26. he doth it notas supposins, that ibere is no other Cod besides that mbte
  27. he morsippeth, for it never came into the minds of any Edolaters,
  28. never will, that that statue which is made by them of metalus orstone,
  29. mood, isthat very Cod who created Heaven and Farth; but they not
  30. Pip those statues and Emases onty as the representation of somethins
  31. mhich is a Mediator betueen Cod and them. Moses albelda che AWtC
  32. ofche Book entituled, non num Onolath Tamidu retolves all thea
  33. ean Polytheism and Edolatry, into chesc Two Principles, onc ol ihicte
  34. respected Cod, and che ocher men chemselves: ri rsB eNZ 1IGIW
  35. IL 7on siB Cnysom iiy J 12 p 2 1213 atI A1 2S ZVB 1I 3X Ne 13. 9120H
  36. ni2173 wgu By, hI ye iy MhHBI uBB h ZoO
  37. HHFE EIZIISIR IBOSDIAMINMB MIENKOBpOn 37: an Zy 1ha20
  38. SIED HZ IBEB pZH HIIBII VINBI _IS B 2ZI VIAS CI Rh O
  39. HIZFISIIION 12 The Idolaters first argued thus, in respect of 60d;
  40. since he vas of such transcendent persection above men, it vas not possib
  41. for men to be united to or have communion mith him, otbermise than e
  42. means of certain Middle Beines or Mediators; as il is the manner es
  43. Farthly Kines, rohave petitions convered to them by the hands of Media
  44. tors e Intercessors. Sécondly theythus argued also in respect os them selves,
  45. That beins corporeal so that they conld not apprehend Cod abstractly, thez
  46. must needs have somethine sensible, to excité andstir uptheir devotione
  47. fix their Imagination upon. Joseph albo in che B0ok called Ikkarim, CO
  48. cludes that ahab and che other Idolatrous Kines oF IEracl aud fucta
  49. worthixped ocher Codsuxon thole tro accounrs mentioned by atu
  50. monides et no ochermile, namely chatche Supreme Cod mas honouredus
  51. vorsippins of his Ministers, and chat chere oustit to be certain Midata
  52. P. 3. c. 18. and Mediators betvixt him and Men, NN VII C2N 0I 13EBD WIhIII 2
  53. 17
  54. GD: VZ EBD _BEO ∞BI IIBRW prIS iHIOB siNhAhAM RITII IA PiBIa
  55. OVII FINS YYSZ GIZOIM NIO3 DN HTNINKI L VI LIININBZ E NBES
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 468. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0488?run=74