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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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more apreable eo his mind chan any ot che orhers Would
harebeen, buc For al chaz he cannotbe Caid eochooleic.
becaule he is decermined cochis one. Pven such a liberey
oE election is thac which is establised by Y. FI. Orracher
much worse in ero respects. The Junior hach ver a liberey
ofconeradiction lete eo choole Whecher he will catie chac
parc ornoccake any pare, buc hre Who is precilely predeter.
minedcochechoice oFehis object, hach no liberer coretule
ic. Secondly, ehie sunior by diridins caresully maypre-
Terre co himselEan equal Mare, buche whoiswholly decer-
mined by exerinsecal caules, is letr alcosetherco che mercy
and dispolicion ot anoeher.
Thirdly. Pproore ic by checexis allendsed, Xumb. 30.
23. IFa Witemake a row, ic is lete ro her Hlusbandschoice.
cicher ro establist ic or mahie ic void. Bucisic be predeter-
mined, chac he Mall establisti ic, ic is noc in his Doer to
make ieroid. IFic be predecermined, thac he Mtrail makeie
roid, icisnoc inhis pover co establimie. And howloe.
ver ic be decermined, vec beins decermined, ic isnorin his
porver indiftereney, cicher co cstablistic, or comake ic
void achis pleature. S0 Josiua 24. 25. Choose ponthis dar
rehom je will serve: But land my house riil serve the Lord.
Ie is coolaceto choose chacthis dar, Wrhich was decermined
oehermise resterdar, Whom je will serve, whether the Gods
Whom pour fathers served, or theCods ofthe Amorites. Where
chere is an election ot this or thac, chele 60d5, Or chose
Gois. chere must needs be cicher an indistereney co boch
objeats, or aeleast a postibiliey oPeictier. I and mybouse
will seve theLord. IFhe were exerinsecally predecermined.
he Bhould noc Cay Twill. serre, buc I must serve. And2
SaM. 24, 12. Poffer thec il rec thines choose rhee which ofthem
Tsall do. How dochGod ofer chree chinss co Davids
choice; ithe had predetermined him eo one ofchechree by
a concourle o necessary extrinsecal causes ? IF a loreraion
Prince Mouid descend (o Far aS eo OfFer a delinquene His
choice, whecher he montd befined, orimprisoned, or Ba-
nistred, and had under hand signed ehe sencence oFhis Ba-
nistmene, whac mere ic else buc plain drollers, or mochery: