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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Bue he deniech che major propolicion, becanse (Caith he)
Man is necessirated or dererminedto hat he sall ehsose by DEX-
cedent necettary causes; L cate avay chis ansvver chree
Waves.
First. by Reason. Election is erermore cicher ofchings
Postible, or acleast otchines conceired cobe possible, chac
is, efticacious election, when a mantiopech or chinkrech of
obceinins che object. Whacloerer ehe Will choosech, it
choosech under che norion ofgo0d, cieter honest or de
lixhirtul or proticable, buc chere can Beno reaIl soodnels
apprehended in chac whichis knomnto be imposible: IC is
erue, chere may be lome mandrins pendulous wistres ot
knomn impossibilicies, asa man allochachachcomieted an
oftence, may wistr hehiad noc committedic, buc to choose
efticaciousy an importibilier, is as impostible as an impol.
biliey ic selF. No man can chink eo obcein chac which he
lnons impossible co bo obecined; buche whoknows chat
all chines are ancecedeney decermined by neceslary cau-
Tes, knons charie is impossible For any chins eo beocher-
misechanic is; Theretore eo alcribe uneo him a poiver ot
election eo choolechis or chac indiffereney, is eo make
ehelame chins eo be decerminedto onc, and eobenor de
cermined coone, which aro contradictories. Asain, who-
Poerer hachan electire pover, or aliberer to choole, hach
allo a liberer, or pover co retule, Tsa. 7. 10. Before ibe
Child Balt bnom torefuse the evit andehoosethegood. Hle who
choosechchis racherxhanthae, retuleth chac racher chan ehis.
AS Moses choosins eo sutter aiction with che people oF
C0d, did chereby retuseche pleatures oF BN. Heb. XI. 24.
Buc no man hach any porrerto retule, chaewhichis necela
larily pradecermined eo be,unlesse ic beas che Fox retused
ehe Grapes which vere bexond his reach. When oncching
ot cvo orchreeis absolutely derermined, cheocter aremade
chereby simply imposible.
Secondiy, Tprooreieby inctances, and by chacuniver-
Calnocion, whichche montdhach oE election; Whac isthe
ditterence becween an electire and hereditars Kingdom:
bucchac in an electire Kin
dom chey hare poirer or liberer