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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 662

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  1. 662 Atheists; NoNac. Justice nor Charit. BOOK I.
  2. Cod, and conceire ot him differently Crom the Generalier ot man-
  3. Kind, 25 a chino which is only eo be Feared, and must conscquenc
  4. Be Hased, Is tromnochins buE cheir onn Vice and TI Naturé. PO
  5. Erlt, cheir Vice (0 Far blindins them, 2s tomalce them chink, chat the
  6. Moral Differences oF 600d and Fvil, have no foundation in Nature
  7. buc only in Lam or arbitrary Constitution CWrhich Lam is Contrary 10
  8. Nature Nature beins Liberty, DuE La Restraint;) asthey cannot but
  9. really Eare chac, which Finders them of cheir True Liberry and Chies
  10. Cood (0 mult cher needs interpret che severity of the Deity lomuch
  11. (oolon oE againt Wickedness, to be noching else, buc Cruelcy and Ar-
  12. bitrary Trranny. Again it is a wretched IUI natured Maxim, itict
  13. chese Atheists Bave, Thacchere is Nulla Naturalis Charitas, No Natu
  14. rat Charitu, bucchat omnis Benevolentia oritur ex Imbecillitate Me
  15. In All Benevolence ariseth onely, from Embecilliry and Pear; that 15,
  16. Trom beine cither obnoxions co anothers Pover, or ltandino in nece
  17. oE his HeIP. S0 chaF aII thac is nom called Love and Priendship amone s
  18. Men, is accordine to chese really nothing, but cither a cronchins un-
  19. der anothers Pover, whom they cannot Resist; Or el(e Mercatura quae
  20. dam Dcilitatum, a certain kind of Merchandizine for 2 cilities. And
  21. thus does Corta in Cicero declare cheir Pence, Ne Homines quidem cen
  22. seris, nist Embecilli essent, futuros Beneficos aut Benienos, Ton conceive
  23. bat no man mould be any may Benesicent or Benevolent to another, vere
  24. it not for his Imbecillity or Indicence. BuFaS ForCod almichty thele
  25. Acheits conclude, That uxon che suppolition orhis Pristence, chere
  26. conid not bc (0 mueh as this Spurions Love or Benevolence in him nei-
  27. Ther, comards anv ching; because by reason oF his absolure and Trre-
  28. sstible Pover, He would neicher sand in Necd oF Any chine, and bC
  29. deveid oF all Fear. Thus cheforementioned Corta. Ouid est Prae
  30. stantius Bonitate e Benesicentia? Qua cum carere Deum vultis, nemi-
  31. nem Deonec Deum nec Tominem Carum, neminem ab eo amari vultis.
  32. Tta fit ut non modo Fomines à Diis, sec ipsi Dii inter se ab aliis alii ne
  33. eligantur. What is theremore excellent than Goodne sand Benesicence 5
  34. which ahen pou will necds have God to beurterly devoid of, pon suppose
  35. that neither any Godnor Man, is Dear tothe Supreme God, or belovec
  36. of him. From mbence it will follom, that not only men are necleitea
  37. by the Gods. but also ihe Cods amonest themselves are neglectec
  38. by one anotber. Accordinoly a lare Precender to Politieles, nho in
  39. ehis manner, discards all Natural fustice and Charity, secermines
  40. concernins Ood, Kegnandi C Puniendi eos qui Leges suas violant, fu
  41. Deo esse a Sola Potentia Trresistibli, That he has no other Rieht of Reienine
  42. over men, and of ennistine those roho transeres his Lams, but onty from
  43. his Trresistible Pover. Wtich indeed is aIl onc aS t0 (a, Zbat Goc
  44. hasno Kieht at all of Ruline over mantind, and imposine commands
  45. upon them, buc irhac he doch in this kind, he doch ic only by Porce
  46. aud Pover; RiehF, and Misht, (Ox Pover) beins very difterent chins.
  47. Trom onc anether, and there beins no Jus Or Kieht without Natural fu-
  48. stice; Cochat the mord Richt is here onsy Abused. And Contentane.
  49. Ouslyhercunto che lame Wricer surcher adds, Si fus Regnandi habe-
  50. at Deus ab omnipotentia sua manisestum est oblicationem ad praestan-
  51. dum ipsi Obedientiam incumbere Hominibus propter Imbicillitatem, Tbat
  52. f60ds Kieht os Commandine, be derived only from his omnipotence.
  53. thesa
  54. Cic. de X. L
  55. 273
  56. 1mb.
  57. Cic. Ibid.
  58. Cic. Iid.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 662. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0682?run=74