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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(108
Bould pcison the manthat enterhit. batthat Wrheat sontd nom
risbhim hewilleth operarively. Whieh is very absurd; or else
hemust consess that the venimons effects of wichedmen, are mil
led operacirelv.
dWVheretore T. FI. is misheily mistaten, co makie ehe
particular and decerminare act oF Killins 2 riah eo be Frori
God. The general poverto actis fromCod, buc chesper
citicacion oEchis general and sood pover, eo mureher, Or
eo any parcicular eril, isnoctrom Cod, buc tromthetree
Wwill oFman.
But nhy am Tsomichtily mistatent did not Coa foretnom
that Uriani in particular. Sould be murthered by Darid in par-
ticular, and rhat Cod forelnomethBallcome to pass, can that
possibly noc cometo passe and that mhich cannot possibly not
cometo pass, doth noc that necessarily come ropass? and is not
al necessitu from C0d? Tcannot sce this creat mistate. The
Seneral porer (saithhe) eo act is trom Cod, buc chespe-
cificarioneo do chis act uxon cyriah, is noc trom 60d, Due
trom Frec. WilI. Very learnealy. As if there vere a pover,
that vere notthe porver ro de some particular ait; or a porver to
hill, and et to hill no body in particular. Tf the porver be to
bill, it is 10 bill that mhich sail be by that perver killcd, he-
eber it bellriatior any orher; and the sivine of that porver is
the application of it to the act; nor doth porver sienitie any thine
sctnallu, but those motiens and present acts from which the act
that is noc nom, but Bal be hercafter, necessarily proceedeth.
And therefore this Arerment is much lite that; which nsed
hcretofore tobe bronehe for the desence of the divine Richt of the
Bistopstothe Ordinationos Ministers. They derive not (say
they) the Riche of Ordination from tho civill Soveraion, bul
from Christ immediarely. And pet they actnomledee that it is
nnlam ful forthem to Ordain, if thecivil poiver do forbid them.
But hom have they richt toOrdain when they cannot de it lam-
fully: their ansmer is they have the Richt, thouchthey may not
exerciseit; as isthe Richtto Ordain, andtbe Richt to Fxer-
eise Ordinarion mere nottlie samethine. And as they ansver
concerninque Righe, mhichis Lecal Porver, so the Bimop ansmer-
eth concernine Natural P’over, that David had a several per
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