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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 350

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  1. Faith and Reason.
  2. DY Moscs: Dut he has noc so great an asturance, that Moses urrit that BOOlE
  3. as ithie had seen Moses vrite ir; (0 that the alturance of its beins a Rere.
  4. lation, is less sill etan the asturance cFhis Senses.
  5. 6. 5. In Propositions Fhen, irhole Cerrainey is built upon clear, anc
  6. pertect Ideas, and erident Deductions of Reason, we necd not the astistence
  7. oF Revelation, as necessary to gain our Asent, and introduce them into
  8. our Mincs. Decause the natural wazs of Knowledge could setrle them
  9. there, or had done it alreacy, Which is the sreatest alturance e can posti
  10. bIy have ot any thino, unlels here Ciod immediarels reveals it to us:
  11. and eliere too our Alurance can be no greater than our Hno ledse is, that
  12. it is a Rerelation trom C0 I. But yet nothins, I chink, can under chat
  13. Title, Make or over rule plain Rnomledee, nor rationalls prevail wittr
  14. any Mlan, to admit ic for rrue, in a direet contradiction to the clear Lvi-
  15. dence ot his omn Onderstandins. For since no Lvidence ot our Faculties
  16. By Wrhich ie receive such Revelations, can excecd, it equal, the Certainty
  17. ot our intuitire Rnomledse, re can never receive for a Pruch, any thino
  18. that is directlr contrary to our clear and distinet Know ledse; v. 8. Th0
  19. Idea oF one Bocy, and one Place, does (0 clearly agrec; and the Mind has
  20. Io erident a Perception of it, that we can nerer alsent to a Propolition,
  21. that astirms the same Body to be in trro distant Places at once, horrever
  22. it should pretend ro che Authoriey ot a dirine Revelation, lince the fivi-
  23. dence; Pirst, That re deceire not our selves in alcribine it to CrOD
  24. Secondlr, That we understand it rishe, can never be lo great, 25 the Fvi-
  25. dence ot our oun intuitire Ihnow ledse, Whereby e discern it impostible,
  26. Forthelame Body to be in tro Places at oncc. And theretore, no Proposi
  27. tion ean be recerved for divine Revelation, Or obtain the ASent due t0 aII
  28. (uC, if it becontradictory to our clear intuitive Unouledee. Since this
  29. rould be to subrertthe Principles, and Foundations oF all Rnowledsc, Rri
  30. dence, and Asent Wharsoever; and leare no difference betreen Fruch and
  31. Falitiood; no measures of Credible and Incredible in the Worid, il doubr.
  32. ul Propositions al talee place belore selFevident; and What re certain-
  33. ly Hno, sire ay to whac ve may possibls be mistalien in. In Propo-
  34. litions chieretore contrary to our distinet and clear Ideas, trrill be in vain
  35. to urge them as Matrers of Faith. They cannot move our AMene under
  36. that, Or any ocher Tirle WWhacloever. For Faith can neves convince us Ot
  37. any thing, that contradtiets our Rnomledge. Because thoue Faith De
  38. Founded on ehe Festimonz oi Cod, (revealins anx Proxolitien tous,) vho
  39. cannot lie; set wre cannor have an alturance of the Truth ot its being a
  40. divine Revelation, greater than our own Rnomledse: since the wrtrolo
  41. Strenoth of the Certainty depends upon our Rnonledse, that God re-
  42. vealed it, wtrich in thiis Case, where che Propolition supposd reveal d,
  43. contraciets our Knowledge or Reason, will alvaze have this Objection
  44. hansins ro it, (viz.) thac we cannot rellhor to conceire, that to come
  45. From COD, the bountitul Author oF our Beine, Which il received for
  46. true, must overturn all our Principles and Foundarions of Rnowledse;
  47. render allour Faculties useless; Wholly destror the most excellent part ot
  48. liis Wortemanstrip, our Onderstandines; and puc a Man in a Condition,
  49. arhierein he will have lels Lighe, less Conduet than the Beast that
  50. verisheth. For il ihe Mind ot Man can never havea clearer (and, per-
  51. haps, nOF (0 clcar) an Fvidence ot any thing to be a dirine Revelation, a5
  52. it has ofthe Principles of its omn Realon, it can never hare a ground to
  53. quit the clear Fvidence ot irs Reason, 1o sire placero a Propolirion, Whole
  54. Rerelarion has nota prearer F videnee.
  55. B

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 350. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0366?run=74