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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. -

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  1. Lhe COnEeHES.
  2. Zbat thC FarEH senI Forth ArCBIS of MIIK after ( STaTC-CTaTE or COrCnABC: nor vet have becx
  3. ihose ber Bew-bOrH InFanES and NursineS; able, 10 possess ibe Minds of men everp. robere
  4. Confured by Critolaus in Philo. Another Pre.
  5. carions Supposition or Fiement os LpicuruS:
  6. Tbat ibenno immoderace Heats nor Colds, nor
  7. any blustering Nt inds. Anaximander swayos Sal.
  8. vins ibis Disticuler; That Men vere first gene-
  9. rated and nouristred in the bellies of l’istres, sill
  10. able to sist for themselves; and iben disçorged
  11. upon dry land. Acheilts svallom any thine ra
  12. ther ibena 60d.
  13. PaSC688, 689
  14. Wherefore here beine Dignus Vindice NO.
  15. dus a Oeds dro unzariis, Reasonably introduced,
  16. in ihe Molaick Cabbala, 1o lolve ibe same. I1
  17. appearine from all Cireumstances put tocetber.
  18. That ebis mhole Phaenomenon surpasses, not one
  19. Ir ibe Mechanick, but also ihe Plasticke Pou
  20. ers; there beine much of Discretion rhereim.
  21. Torvever, not denied, but tbat ihe Ministery es
  22. Spirits (Created before Man, and otber JCr
  23. with such a constant Arve and Dread of an In-
  24. vilible Noching. Zbe WN ortd vould lone since
  25. bave dscovered ibis Cheac, and suspected a
  26. Ptot upon their Liberer, in ehe riction oF a
  27. Cod; et least Covernours themselves vould
  28. have understood it; many of rwhich notroith-
  29. standine as much aved wiih ihe Pear of ihis In-
  30. visible Noching as any Orbers. Orher Cheats
  31. and Juoples, nhen once Delecied no loncer Pra-
  32. Eised. But Kelieion nom as much in Credit as
  33. ever, thoueh so lons sinee Decried by Acheills,
  34. for a Policical CheaC. ZBat Christianiey, a
  35. Kelicion L’ounded in no Hlumane Polier, pre-
  36. vailed over ihe Crate and Poveros allCivilISo-
  37. vereiers, and Conquered ihe Persecucine Worid,
  38. by susferine Deaths and Marrordoms. This Pre-
  39. senisied by rhe Prophecicke Spiric. PagC691,
  40. 692
  41. Hnd ihe Idea of G0d, Been an Arbitrarious
  42. reltrial AnimalS) mieht be bere made use of.
  43. As in PIaCO, afier the Creacion of Imniorcal Pismene, nos conceivable, horo men Bould have
  44. universaliy aereed in ihe same, and tbe MIIri-
  45. Souls, bo the Supreme G0d, the Pramine es
  46. Mortal Bodies is commilted 1o funior Gods. butes belongine herenmo: (This Areument used
  47. 689600 by SCxIIS:) Nor ihat Civit Sovereiens them
  48. Furthermore Atheists no more able 1o Salve selves sroutd so universally have sumped in it
  49. 692 69
  50. ehat ordinary Phaenomenon, of ihe Conterva-
  51. Purthermore: Not Conceivable, hom ibu
  52. tion oF Species, by ihe Disserence of Sexes, and
  53. a due Proportion of Number, Kept up berween Thouehe or Idea of a Cod srould bave been l’or-
  54. Males and Females. Pere a Providence also,
  55. med byany had it beenihe Ideaot Noching. Ih0
  56. Superticialnels oF Acheils, in Pretendine, 1hAt
  57. Superiour as well eo she Plastick, as Mechanict
  58. Nature.
  59. ibid. Policicians, by relline men os Such a ibine, put
  60. Lastr. Orber PhanOmena, as RCaI, sboueh ihe Idea intorbeir Minds. No NocionS, or Idea S,
  61. not ptiylical; which atheists cannot possiblo
  62. Salve, and theresore de commonty Deny; as of
  63. put into mens minds by Words, but onely tho
  64. Phancasins oEche Sounds. Thonel alt L carnine
  65. Nacura) Justice er Honesr, and Obligacion; Be nor Remembrance; ver is all Humane Yea
  66. ihe Foundarion os Policicks, and ihe Machema-
  67. ricles of Relision. And of Liberey of W ill,
  68. noc onetu Tbar of Foreuicous SelF. decermination,
  69. ching, bus Maieuricalor ObRecricious; Not 1hc
  70. Filline oF che Soul as a Vesset, by Pourine into
  71. it from without: hut ihe Kinclins oE ic from
  72. virhin. Words sienisie norhine sohim ihAt Can-
  73. when an egual F. lisibiliey os Objects; but also
  74. That which makes men deserve Commendation, not raise up mirbin himsels ibe NOciOnS, ot
  75. IdcaS, correspondent ro them. Horrever ihe Vis-
  76. and Blame. These not commenty distinguistred,
  77. a ibcy Oueht. Ppicurus bis endeavour 1o Salve
  78. Liberer ot WilI from Atoms Declinins Vncc-
  79. Reulrystill remains; Hor Scaces- men themselves.
  80. or the first Invencer of ihis Cheat, contd have
  81. taintu from the Perpendicular, meer Madness framed any Nocion at all of a Non. Enciey.
  82. 693,691
  83. and FrenZY.
  84. 690,691
  85. And nor have me already Preventively Con-
  86. futed ihe Third Acheistick Pretence, 10 Salve
  87. ihe Phanomenon DE Theilm, fromthe Fiction
  88. and Impolture of Politicians; me havine pro-
  89. ved That Philolophr, and ibe true Knowlede
  90. OECauses, inferre the Existence os a Cod. Never-
  91. theless this so behere furrber Anlivered. 691
  92. Tbat Scaces- men and Politicians contd not
  93. have made such use of Relisions as sometimes
  94. therbave done, bad it been a meer Cheac and
  95. Fismene of sbeir oon. Civit Sovereiens in ali
  96. ohe distant places of the Worid, contd not have
  97. so universaliy conspired, in ihis one Piece os
  98. Dere ihe Acheists Prerend, That ehere is a
  99. Feignins Porver in ihe Soul, hereby it can mahe
  100. Ideas and Concepcions of Non-Encicies; a5 os
  101. a GoIden MouncaIn, Or a CCnTAUT: and 1B1F
  102. by rbis, an Idea os Codmieht be framed ihoueh
  103. ibere be no such Thing. Ansiver; Thac all ihe
  104. Feignins Pover of ihe Sout, consisteth oncly in
  105. Compoundins Idea s ofrhines that Rcally Lxist
  106. Apart, but not in that Conjunction. Jhe Mina
  107. cannot matie any Dew Concepcire Cogicacion.
  108. which rs not Before; as the Painter or Limnee
  109. cannot Peien ColourS. Moreover the mholeof ihesc
  110. Ficticious Idca S, thouxh it have no Actual, yet
  111. 1st

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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066511403:0163?run=74