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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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ted from this dominion of Gods ill, therill of Man; and
bronehe in a Doctrine ehat not onely Man. but also his rill is
Free, and determined rothis or that action, not by ihe Will of
Cod, nor necessary causes, but bythe pover of the Willit Self.
and thonch byihe reformed Churches instructed by Lucher,
Calvin and orhers, this opinion mas cast ont, ret not many rears
since it becan acain tobe reduced by arminius and his follomers,
and became the readiest may to Ecclesiastical promotion; and
bydiscontentine those thatheldthe contrary, vas in some part
the cause ofthefollorine tronbles; rhich troubles rere theoc-
casion of my meetins miththe Bistopof Derry at Paris, where
e dicoursed tocether of the Areument non inhand; front
which Discourse me carried amay cachof us his omn opinion.
and for oueht Lremembermithont any offensive mords, as blas-
Phemous, acheistical or the like, pasfine betweenus; eitherfor
that the Bisop mas not then in passion, or suppressed hispassion,
beine theninthe presenceof my Lordof Neweattle.
But astermards the Bistrop sent to his Tordip his opinion
concernine the question in vritine, and desired himto persmade
metosend an ansmer therenntolikenise invritine. There vere
some reasons for which Pthouehe it mieht beinconvenient to let
my ansver eoabroad; pet the mans oblications rherein l mas
oblicedio him, prevailedmith me torrite this ausmer, whicb mas
ascermards noc onely rmithont mytenomledee, but also açainst
my vill. publised by one that found means to set a C. opy of il
Surreptitionsty. And thus non have che Occasionof this C. on-
troversie.
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Tomards the end of XCumb. 3.) in these vords, Whe-
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