# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0026 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0026?run=74 # Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163) # Folio 14, page id 1030877386:0026 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1030877386&page=26 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1030877386/jpgs/default/00000026.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 40 lines, status machine # Lines: 40 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. 4 por in him that siveth isse tvice, to sivethe same miseries tnico also. Andehus much in Ansiver to the Inconveniences that are pretended to folloro the Doctrine of Necessity. Onthe other side from ihis Position, thata man is free to mill. it follomeththat the Praescienceof God is quite tabem avay. For hor can it be lenoron beforetsand ihat mansall have a will to. ifthat rill of hisproceed not from necessary causes, but that he have in his porver to will ornot will: So also those thines hichs are called future continsents, is they come not ro passe rithcer- tainty, that is to Cay. Fromnecessary causes, can never be fore- nonn: so that Gods firelenomine san sometimes be of ihines that Ball not ceme to passe, rhich is as much to say, that his fore- tenomledse is none; hichis a great distentur to the AIl. lenom- Ene Porver. Thonch this be altthe Juconvenient Doctrine that folloverh. Freewill for as much as Tcan nom remeriber; pet tbe defend- inc of ehis opinion hach drarn the Pistop and other Patrons of et intomans inconvenient aud absurd conclusions, and made them make use of an infinite number of Insignificant vords; here- of one conclusion is in Suarez, that G0d doth soconcurre mith ihe rillof Man that it Manwill, etien Godconcurres; whicb is to subject not ihe will of Nan 10C0d, but the will ef God10 Man. Otberinconvenient cnclusions L Pall then marte out ahen Tcometo my obsorvations upon the Bistops reply. And thus farre concernins the inconveniences that follom botb. Opi nions. The Aetribure of G0d which he drameth into areument is his Jactice, as that Ced cannos be zust in punistiine any man for that wbich he mas necessetatedro do. Fonhich L have ansvered before, as beine one of the Inconveniences pretendedro folion apon the Doctrinoos Necessiry. Onthe Contrary, from ano- oberof Gods Attribures, hich is his Fore-hnomledoe, Palevidently derive, that all Actions whatsoever. Whether they procced fromthe mill or from fortune vere necessary from eternity. For hatsoever God Fore lnometh sall eome to passe; connot but come ropasse, that is, itis impossible it sould not come eo passe, or othermise conse ro passe then il mas fore. lnonn. But hatsoever as Impossible sould be otherrise, vas ne- 6e sary 3