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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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cessary; for the definition of Necellary is that which cannot
possibly be othermise. And hereas they that distingnisti be-
teen Gods Praescience andhis Decree, Saythe. Fore. nomledee
maketh not the Necessity withour the Dcoree; it is liule to the
purpose. Et sufficeth me that mhatsoever mas fore-bnomn by
God, vas necessary; but al thines vere Fore. Lnonn by God; andi
therefore all thines vere necessary. And as for the distinction
of Pore. Knomledse from Decree in Cod Mlmichty, Lcompre-
hendit not. Theyare Acts coeternall, and therefore one.
Andas for the Arcuments dramn fromnatura reason they
are set donnat larce in the end of my discourse tomhich the
Bistop maketh his reply; miich hom meil he hath ansvered sal
appear in due time. For the present, the Actions mhichhe chint-
eth proceed from liberiy of nill, must either be necessitaled, or
proceed from fortune, mithont angothercause; for certainly ta
Nill is Impossible mithont thintine on mhat he milleth. BWE
it is in no mans Flection robat he Ball at ary named time
bercaster thinte on. And this Y take to be enonch to clear the
understandins of the Reader, that he maybe thebetter ablero
Fudee of the Follomine Disputation. L find in those that
rorite of ihis Arrument C especially in the Schoolmen and their
Pollovers) so many mords strancers to our Lanenace, and
Such Consusion and Lnanity in therancine os ihem, as thata
mans mind in the readine os them distineaisheth nothine;
And as thines mere in the becinnine (before the Spirit of
God vas moved upon thc Abiss) Tohu and Bohu, thac
is to say. Confusion and emptiness; se are their dis-
courses.