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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Thouch L vere not supprised. yet I do not sce thoreason for
hich, hesaith, he may expect a more mature ansiver from me:
or any further ansiver at all. For secins Trrit this at his modest
request, it is no modest expectation toloool for as many ansvers
as he Ball be pleased to exact.
b) The Sticep Mould noc brase hon muchcher have
cacen, buc em ic incheir Lamb and WVooI.
Tris noereat braceine. 1o jay lmas not supprised; for mho-
Soever chancetheoread Suarez hes Opuscula mbere herricethof
Frec- Wwill, andos theconcourle ot God wieti Mans Will; salo
finaibe createst part, it not al that the Bistrop hath urged in
this Onestion. Buithat whichthe Bihop hath said ofthe Rea-
sons and Authoriries rhich he saith (inhis Epistle) de offer
themselvesto serve inthis cause; and many other passares ef
his B00k. TBa (L think ) hefore Lhave done mithhim make ap-
pear tobe very bracsins, and nothins elsc. Andthonch he say
it be Fpictecus his connsell that Sheep Bould Bor What they cat,
En their Lamb and Wool, Et is not lihely that EPicEetus Bould
tatee ametaphor from Lamb and Wool; for it conld not easily
come intothe mindof men that vere not acquainted withthe pay
ins of Fithes. Orif it had. he mouldhave said Lambs inthe
Ploral, as Lay menuse to speat. That which follores of my
leavins thinesuntouche, and alterins chestate of the Duestion;
Tremember nosuchthine, unless he require thatl Bould ans-
ver, not tohis Areuments onely, but alsoro his Syllables.
T. 1
raface is anhandsome one, bur it appearse ven in that.
that he hathmictaten the Duestion; for mhereas he sayes
thus if Ibe frec torrice this discourse lhavcobreined the canse
Idenrthat tobe erue, for ris not enouch tohis frecdome of rri-
tinc, that he had not vrittenit, anless he montdhimself; if he
wil obseinthe cause, he must prove that before he vritil, it
vas not nece sary he Bouldurite it aftermard. Et maybe hechintes
Et all one tosay, Lwas free tovrite it, and it vas not necessary I.
Bouldorite it. But T tbink othermise; for he is freeto do a
thing, that maydo it if hehave the will to do it, and mayfor-
bear if hehave therill 10 forhear. Andyet iftherebe a neces-
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