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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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any rricked person do proceed trom ehe operatire, buctrom
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nor Penistimenes atcer deachr. Torhis Lansmered, that thonch
Cod cannot sin, because rhat hedoth his doine maleth just; and
becanse heis not subject to anothers Lam, andthat therefore it is
blasphemy 20 say, that God ean sin, vet to say that Cod hathso
orderedthe morld. that sin may necesarily be committedis not
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of al motion and of all actions, and therefore anless sin beno mo-
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