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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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doincos it mithont injustice; but if a manshould command a
thine tobe donc, and iben plot secret ly chehinderance of the same
and punist for the not doine of it, it mere injustice. This is il
rrhich he BictoD apprehends as an impuration of falsood to
Cod Almighcy. Andperhaps if ihe death of a sinner mere, as
be thintes, an eternal lise in extream misery, a manmieht as
far as Job hath done, expostulare mith God Imichtr, not ac-
cusins him of irjustice, because rhat (oever he doth is therefore
jnst because done by him; but of lieile tenderness. and love to
mantind, and ibis expostulation nill be egnallus inst or ingust.
Whether the necessery of althines be grance d or denyed; for it is
manis est that God contd have made man impeccable, and can
nom preserve him from sin, or forcivehim if heplease; and
therefore, if he please not, the expostulation is as reasonable in
the cases of Liberry as of Necesticy.
Oure, il cirher rhe decrec of God, or cheloreknoW. Numb. 17.
L ledse ot C0d or ehe inAuence ofche Scarrs, orthe con. Arc
cocenarion oF causes, oc che phyfical, Or moral
etticacy ot objects, er the las dictare of che underctand-
ins. do cate onay erue libercy, ehen Adam betore his FaII
had no erueliberey. Por he ivas subjected roche lame de-
crees, the tame prescience, che lame constellations, ehe
Tame causes, the lame objects, ehe sarne dictates oFche un-
derstandins. Bur, quiequid ostendes mihi sic, incredulons od
Phegreacest oppolers oF our liberer, are as carnest maincai-
ners ofcheliberes oE Adam. Theretore none otchele sup-
aosed impedimenes cake amay erve liberer.