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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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a0 il; for we Ball de that mhether me will or not; but t0 looke
intohis C ommandements, that is, asto the zemes, the Lan of
Moles; and as to other People, the Lames of their C ountry.
OItrael chy deltruction istrom chy selF, buc in meis che
help. Oras some Fnelist Transtati ns haveit. OTlrael chou
hast destroved chy teli, _c. Is literalty trne, but malethno-
thins axainst me; for the man thar sins millinely. What soever
hethe cause of his Will, if he benot forsiven bath destroyed
himsels, as beine his omn act.
irbere it is said, Thes hare oftered eheir Pons uneo Baal
Whrich Tcommanded noc, nor (patte ic, nor come ic ineomy
mind. These moras, nor come icineo my mind, are by some
much insisted on as ifthey had done it mithont the Will of Cod.
For what soeveris done comes into Coas mind, tbat is, intohis
eromledee, mhieb implyes a cerrainty of the future action, and
that cerrainty an antecedent purpose of God tobrine it to passe.
Et cannot therefore be meant Cod didnot will il, but thathe
had nocthe will eo command ic. But by the may it is tobe na-
ted; that vohen Cod speate sto men concernine hic Will and o-
eher Atrributes, hespeates of themas if choy vere like tothose
ofmen, eo the end he may be understood. And thereforeto the
order ofhisrrork, the Worid, wherein one thine follomes ane-
ther se aptlyas no mancould ordor it by Desiene, he sives the
name of Wr ill and Purpose. For that which we call Designe
mhichis reasoning; and thoucht ascer thoucht, sannot be pro-
perly attributed to God, in nhose thonshes there is no Fore nor
alcer.
Dut bat sall me ansiver eo the Words in Fcclesiastions
Say noc thou, it is chroush the Lord PFell away; Pay noe
chou, hehaci cauled me eO errC. IF it had not bcen, lay nOC
ehou, bur chinknocetou, PBoul d have ansveredthat Lcole-
siasticusis Apocrypha, and meerly humane authority. But it
is very true, that sueh mords as theseare not eobesaid; first
becanse St. Paul forbids it, Strall che chins Formed, (saith he)
lay eo him chactormed ic, why halt chou mademe (0. X et erue it
is, that he did so mahe him. Secondly, becanse we oncht 10 At-
tribute nothins to 6od but inhat we conceave to be Fonour-
able