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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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mine, that Medicine is superstnons. Dut as Aledicine is to
Fealch, so is Piety Consultation. Arts, Armes, Bocks,
Instruments, and Teacbers, every one to its se verat end. Out
ot the Bictops opinion it follomes as well as fromine, that
Mledicine is superAtnons 10 Flealtb. Therefore from his opi-
nion as well as frommine, it follometh, (it suoh ratiocination
Were not unsonnd,) that Piety. Consultation, c. are al (o
superstuons to their respectrive ends. And for the superstuit
of Larves, Whatsoever be thetruch of the Duestion bermeon
us, they are not saperstnons, becanse by the punnistiie of one
or ofa fer unjustmen, they arethecause of justice in a great
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But the greatest inconvenience of all that the Biltrop pre-
tends may be drann frem this opinion is, char Cod in justice
cannor punnistr a man wich exernal cormens for doins chac,
which ic masnerer in his porverrolearenodone. It is trne,
that sceine the name of punnistment hath relation tothename
of Crime, ihere can be ne punistment but for Crimes tbat
miehehave been left undone; but instead of punnictimene is he
had said actliecion, may not l say that Cod mar asstict and net
for sin e doihhe nor asstict those Creatures that Cannot (n: and
sometimes ihose that ean sin, aud jet not for fin, as 70b and
the Man in the Cospel zhat masborn blind, for the manifesta
sion of his porrer inhichhe hath over his Creature, no less
bat more thanhach the Porter over his Clay, to malee of it whae
heplease: B ut thonch God have pover to astict aman and nos
for (n vithout ininstice, sall me think G0d so ornel ac t0 af-
Riet aman and not for sin mith extream and endlesse torment:
Is it not CrueltY: Nomore than todothe same for sin, mhen
hethat se afsticteth miehe withont trouble have kept him from
sinnins. But har infallible evidence hath the BiBoP. that
aman sail be after this life. Eterxally intorments and never
die? Or hom is it certain there is no second death, Wben tbe
Scripture saith there is? Or mhere doththe Scripture say that
a second deathis an endless life: Or dothe Doctors onely say it E
then perhaps they dobui sayso and for reasons best lnomn to
themselves. There is no injustice nor crueltu in him that si-
veth lise, rosive withir sihnesse, pain, torments, and death;
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