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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 351

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  1. aith and R
  2. 6. 6. ThusPar a ptan has ule oF Reason, and oushie to hearten t0
  3. eren in immediate and oricinal Revelation, Where it is suppoledr made
  4. cohimselF: But eo aII ehole Wrho prerend not to immediare Rerelation
  5. buE are required to par Obedience, and to receire the Frurtrs revealed io
  6. Ochers, Wrtich, by thc Tradition oF Writines, Or Word oF Mouth, are
  7. conveyed donn to them, Reason has a great deal more to do. and is that
  8. onr erhrich can induce us to receire them. For Matter ol Faith beine
  9. only Divine Revelation, and nothins elle, Faith, a5 Wre use tHC Word,
  10. (called commonlr, Divine Faith) has to do with no Propolitions, but
  11. ehiose wrhich are supposed to be divinely revealed. So that Ido not sec
  12. hor chole; irho mahhe Revelarion alone the sole Object ot FaitH, can (ay,
  13. chat it is a Marter oP Faith, and nor of Realon, tobeliere, that Puich or sucli
  14. a Propolition, to be sound in such or suclr a Booli, is oF Divine inspira-
  15. tion; unless it be revealeo, that that Propolition, or all in that BOOl,
  16. Was communicated by Divine laspiration. Withour luch a Revelation, thc
  17. Delierino, or nor believine thac Proposition, or Bool, t0 De ot Divine AuFIIO-
  18. rier, can never bematter ol Faith, burMtatter ot Reason; and tuchi as Imust
  19. corme to an Assent to, only by the use of my Rcalon, Which Can never
  20. require or enable me to believe that, Wrhich is contrary to it seil: it Deino
  21. impossiblo Cor Reason, ever to procure any ARent tothat, Which toic selt
  22. appears unrealonable.
  23. In all Things Cherolore, Where e tave clear Fvidence Trom our Ideas,
  24. and chose Principles oF Rnomledse, I have abore mentioned, Realori is thC
  25. proper sudge; and Revelation, thouch it mas in consentins with it, con
  26. firrii its Dictates, vet cannor, in Tuch Cases, invalidare its Decrees: Nor
  27. can ve be oblised, where we have the clear and evident Sentence of Rea-
  28. son, 1o quil it, for ihe contrary Opinion, under a Pretence that it i5 Mac-
  29. ter of Faith.
  30. 5. 7. Bur Thirally, There beins mans Thines, Wherein we hare very
  31. impertect Notions, or none at all; and other Thinss, oF irhole past, pre-
  32. Sent, or future Fxistence, by the natural Vse of our l’aculties, we can have
  33. noHnomledse at all; thele, as beins berotd the Dilcovery oF our natu.
  34. ral Faculties, and abore Reason, are, irhen revealed, the proper Matrer of
  35. Faith. Thusthat pare ot the Angels rebelled against GOD, and there-
  36. Dy lost cheir Girst happy Stare: And that the Bodies oF Nen Mall rile, and
  37. live asain: Pheso, and the liko, beins bes ond the Discoverr ot Realon,
  38. are purely Macters oE Faich; wich whict, Realon has, directly, nochins
  39. t0d0.
  40. 5. 8. But since alL Thines chat are urider ehe Character oF Divine Revela-
  41. tion are esteemed Marrer os Faith; arid eliere are amonest them, several.
  42. Things, that Fall under the Lxamen of Realon; and are luch as we could
  43. iudse oF by our natural Faculries, rithout a Supernatural Revelarion.
  44. In thiele, Revelation must carry it, acainst the probable Conjectures of Rea-
  45. son: because the Minc, noc beins certain oFthe Truth of chat it does not
  46. cridenels knon, but is onls probabls convinced ol, is bound to sive up
  47. its Alsen eo such a Teltimons, wrhich, it is Patistied, comes trom one wwho
  48. cannot err, and ill noc deceire. But vet, it RiII Belongo to Realon, t0
  49. judse oF the Fruch ot its beins a Rerelation, and ot the signilication ot
  50. the Words wrhierein it is delivered. Indced, il any thine MalI DC thOuDHE
  51. Rerelation, Wrhich is contrary to the plain Principles ol Reason, and the
  52. evident Rnomledse theMind has of its omn clear and dictinct Laeas; there
  53. Reason must be hearhned to, as to a Matter within its Province: Since a
  54. Han can never have so certain a Rnowledoe, that a Propolition Whieh
  55. contradicts the clear Principles and Fvidence ol his omn Hnoivledsc, Was
  56. divinely

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 351. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0367?run=74