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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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rithstanaine Crod had placed in the Carden a means tokeephim
perpernalius from dyins incase he should accommodate his Wr ill to
obedience of Gods commandement concernine therree of lnonlede
of eood and erit, get RCam as ot so much master of lis onn
Will astodo it. Wberehy is signified that a mortal man choneh
invited by the promise of immortality cannot covern his omn
Will, thoneh his Will covern his Actions, mhich dependance of
the Actions on the Wr ill, is that which properly anderuly is called
Liberey. And the libemy be (aid of the mords to Fve, utry
hast choudonechisd andos those to Cain, Why arethou weoche
exc. andto Tsraet. Wtry wiil ye dye O house ofltrael? but
ehe Bistrophere will saydc, senifiech not dyc, but live eter.
nalu in torments. For by such interprecations any man may
ansmer any thine. and irbereas he asteth, Doch God repre
hend him for doinz hacWhichhe hach ancecedently decer-
mined him Chae te MuK do: J ansiver, no; but he convin-
ceth and instructethbim, that thouch immortalicy vas se easie
toobrain, as it mighe be had for che abstinence fromthe fruit of
one onely trec; ret hecould not obrain it but by pardon, and by
the sacrafice of Zefus Christ; nor is there here any panistment,
but oncly a reducine of Adam and L. ve totheir oricinal morta-
lity, vhere dearb mas no punistment but a eist of God. In
hich mortality helived neer a thonsand rears, and had a nume-
rous issue, and iived nithout misery, and Tbelceve sall at the
Resurrection obiain the immortalit which thenhe lost. Nor in
al this, isthere anr ploetine secrerty, or any moctery or derise-
on, Whichehe Distrop moc. ld makemen beleevethereis And
Whereas hesaith, that chey who calkhere oF a ewotold Will
ot60d, Secrec and rerealed, and che one oppolicero che o-
cher, understand noc Whacthey (ay. The Prorestant Doct-
torsbochof our, and other Churches, did use to distinguist be-
tmeenthesecret and revealed WillofGod; the former theycal-
led voluneas bene plecici, Whicb scenisteth absolurlys bis will
theother voluncas signi, ehat is, the scenification of his will.
inthe same sense that L calltheone his ill, the other his Com-
mandemene, mhich may sometimes differ. For Gods Com-
mandemeue to Abrahatm mas, that he Boula sacrafice CaaCk,
bat his Wil nas, thar he Bontd not doit. Gods demunciation