The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 713
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- Over Pagan Oracles.
- vould hnom of him, Wrhether it conld be done or no. Navius havine
- performed his Anguratine Ceremonies, replied, that the thine mixht be
- done. Wherenpon Prileus declared, what his Thoncht mas, namely, that
- arberstone mieht beent in two mith a RaZOr. Navius willed them 10
- mahe trial: Wherefore a Whetstone beine broncht immediatty into the
- Courr; it mas inihe sieht of the Kine and allthe People oivided witha
- RaZOr. Bur ehie Predictions amonst hose PaganS, Were For the most
- part only oF the Former Rind, suck as procccded eeriy From che
- Natural Presaeine Faculty oF chele Demons; chis appcarins tromhence.
- because their Oracles were oscen expressed ambienonsty, (0 as that they
- miphebe raken cicher mar; those Demons chemtelves, it sCeMS, De-
- ins chen nOE ConSdenE OF the Event: as alto because they ivere
- Comerimes plaiuly miltaken in thCEVENES. And Crom hence it WaS.
- thac chey seldom Ventured to Foretel, any Pvents remorely distant.
- buc ouly whac vere nigh at hand, and Mortly eocome co paIS; and
- cheresore mipht be Probably Conjectured oF, trom chinssthen in Bc-
- ing. NocwichCondino which, we acknom ledge, ThaLTMErC arE COmC
- em inttances oF Predictionsamone (E thE PaSanS, OF che ocher Kind.
- Such as chac intimated by Cicero in his Book oF Divination, Where
- he declareh etie Doctrine oF Diodorus concernins Necessuy and Con-
- lingency; non necesse fuisse Cypielum reenare Corinchi, quanquam
- ad Millesimo ante anno. Apollinis oraculo editum esset, ihat it vas not
- Necessarus, Cyplelus ihe Tyrant, Bould reien at Corivct, ihoneh that
- vere a ihins Predicted by Apollos Oracte, a thonsand gears before. AS
- allo chis recorded by Varro, oF ectius Valens, an Augur in che Time
- OE Romulus, Who when Rome was a buildins, From che Ayins OC
- Evelve Vultures, PrelaB ed that FhC COnFIMUIAHCC OF chat City would
- Detor Tvelve Hundred vears: Which scems to have been accordine-
- y sulsilled, in che rear oF our Lord Pour tiundred Ecey and Ave, im-
- mediarly aster the death oF che Third Valentinian (Wtom Come malce
- co beche laCt R cal EMpCTOUT OF thC WN est OT KomC) wheu censericus
- Chevandal, cook the Ciey che second cime, and Ercd ic. Buc above
- All ChatoE he Sibyls; OF Whose Prophecies such chives are recorded
- Sy Poxan Vricers, as makces it very suspicious, chaccher did Foretel che
- comine oE our Sariour Christ, and che cimes oF Christianiey; bue
- vere chese and the litce Pason Prophecies, Real, chen must chey
- decdshave had Come bixher Oripinal, chan che Natural Presaeins Fa-
- cultu oF cheir Demons, especially chose oF the Sibyls; who FOr OuxHE
- veknon, miphe bc as well artisted Super. Naturally, to prediet our
- daviour Chrilt, amonest ehie Pagans in ihC W est; a5 Balaam was in
- he Ent.
- Buctiere che scripture iriumphech over eaganism, and all its ora.
- Eles and Divinations; chere beins containe d in ic (o many unqueltio-
- nable predictions oF Evenes to tollo a lons eime atter, and such a5
- ean be impured co nochine buc che supernatural Foreknomledse and
- Omniscience oF Ood AImipher. As For example, chole concernive
- he Messiah, Or our saviour Christ, delivered by facob, Moses, David.
- saias. feremy. Daniel, and most OF che Prophers; Foretelline fundry
- parcicular circymstances oF hiscomine, and chac grand F vent whictu
- ollomed alteri, oF the censites or Pasans (0 seneral Reception avicl
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 713. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0733?run=74