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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 313

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  1. Chap. X. Lnomledge of the Existence of a
  2. 8. 5. Again, a Nan finds in himselPercextion, ard Rnor lec
  3. have then got one Cep Tarther; and ve are certain no, that chere is nOL
  4. ouls some Beins, buc some lnomins intellisent Beins in ehe Worid.
  5. There was a time then, wien chere ras no lnowins Bcins. and ivlien
  6. Bnomledse becanto be; or else, there has been allo a knovine Beine from
  7. Pternitr. Itic be Cai, there vas a time wtien no Beins had any Lnoi
  8. ledse, whenthat eternal Beins vas void ol all Inderstandins. I reply,
  9. HF Then it Was impossible chere thould ever have been aur Anomledoe.
  10. It beins as impossible, that Thinss Wholly void oEknoirledee, and ope-
  11. ratins blindly, and rithout ans Perceprion, Riould produce a Lnowins
  12. Being, 25 ic is impossile, that a Friansle Mould malse ic selt chrce Angles
  13. bisger chan tno risticones. For it is as repusnant to che Idea o lenslels
  14. Matrer, thac ic Mhould pur into it selt dense, Percepcion, and inonledse
  15. aS itis repugnant to the Idea of a Friansle, chat it Mould pur into it lclF
  16. Freacer Ansles elian eworistit OnCS.
  17. S. 6. Thus trom che Consideration oF our selves, ane ehac We infaltibly
  18. Aind in our omn Constitutions, our Realon leacs us to the Hnovledse ot
  19. ehis certain and evident Truth, Phatibere is an eternal, most povertul,
  20. and most tnovine Beine; Which Whether anx onc will pleale to call Cod,
  21. it matters not. Fhe chins is erident, and trom this Iden duly conside.
  22. red, ill casily bc deduced all chole other Actributes, we oughe to aleribe
  23. io this eternal Beins.
  24. From Wrtrathas been Paid, it is plain to me, e have a more cer-
  25. tain Rnomledse ofthe Existence ot a GOD, than of any chins our senles
  26. hrave nor immediatels discovered to us. Nay, Iprelume Imaz Cay, that
  27. e more certanly lenom chac chereis a GOD, chan chac cherO 1S aMY CAIME
  28. else ithout us When I lay re tnou, l mean chere is such a Knowledse
  29. wichin our reach, Wrhich e cannot mils, il we nill but apels our Minds
  30. to chat, 25 we do ro several orher fnquiries.
  31. 6. 7. FTo far the Ideas of a most persect Beine, Wrhrich, a Man may
  32. Frame in his Mind, does, or does not prove the Existence of a Cod, In i l
  33. nOt here examine. For in the ditterent Mako oF Mens TepOrS, and
  34. Application of their Thoushus, lome arguments prevail more on Onc,
  35. and some on anocher, for the Contirmation ot chesame Fruch. But yet,
  36. Ichink, this Imay Cay, that it is an ill was, ot establistrins this Fruch,
  37. andGilencins Acheilts, to las che whole Aress oE soimportant a POinF, 25
  38. chis, upon chat sole Foundarion: and cale some Menshavins that Idea
  39. ot cod in their Minds, (for tis evident, some Nen have nonc, and lome
  40. rorse thannone, andche most very difterent,) tor che onls prootol a
  41. Deiey; and out ot an over Condrels ol chat Darline Invention, calhier, or
  42. ac leas endeavour io invalicare all ocher Arguments, and torbid us to
  43. hearken to those prools, as beins weak, or tallacious, Which curoon fxi
  44. Aenco, and che sensible parts ot the Vniverse, otter (0 clearty, and cogent.
  45. Iyco our Thoustto, that ldeem ic impossible Por a considerins Man 10
  46. ithstand chem. For Lindse it as cerrain, and clear a Truth, as can ans
  47. irhere bo deliverec, ilhat the invisible Thirss oF Croc, are clearli seen
  48. trom che Creation oF. the World, beins understood by the Phiveschat are
  49. macto, oven his Fternai Porrer, and Cod heac; Phoush our oin Being
  50. furnistres us, a5 Thave Mewn, wich an crident, aud inconteltable proot et
  51. a Deitr. And L. beleire no Body ean avoid che Cogener ot it, Wrho will
  52. buc asleorelully artend to ic, as to any ocher Demonstration of so mariy
  53. PartS: Vet thisbeins (0 fundamental a Frucli, and ot thât Consequence,
  54. chac alt Retieion ael sonuire Mocalics sepend thereon, L doube noc. buc.
  55. 130
  56. LMraiI

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 313. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0329?run=74