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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 110, page id 1030877386:0122
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(110
Resdesibis. heis divento mords ill becomine him that is a
speal os Code Almiebty. for he makes hime unablero de thar
Which hath been mithinibe crdinaru Porrer of men t0do. 60d
Chesaith) cannor deltroy che Richreous wich che Wiched.
hich ne vertheless is athine ordinarily done by armies, and
IsCcouldnoc deltros Sodome While Lot WaS inie, nhich he
interpreteth, as if he conld not a0 it lamfully, one text is Cen.
18, 23, 24, 25. Fhere is not a mord that Cod conta not de-
Stroy cheRirhicons mith theWricked. Onctu Abralum saith
Cas a man Ballnot the Judee C all the carihdo Kicht. A-
notheris Ger. 19, 22. Hlastethee, escape thither; Tor(I can-
noc doany chins cill ehou be comechictier. Trhich is an or-
dinari phrase, in snch a case rhere Cod had determined t0
Burathe Ciry, and save apariicular man, and sirnifierh not
any oblicationto save LOC, more thanthe rest. Lilevise con-
cernine I0b, ubo expostulatine rith Cod. mas ansvered ontq
mich the caplicarion of the infinice porver of 6od, the Bimhop
ansivereth, thatthere is never a mordof J0bs beine punisted
ithont aesert; which ansver is impertinent, for I Cay not
ehat he mas punisted mithont desert, bnt that it mas not for his
desertibat hemas asstucted; for punisted, he mas not at all.
And concerninque the blind MLan, Tohm 9. ho mas born
blindtbat the porver of Cod micht beBonn in him; he ansvers
that it mas noc a punisment, but a blessine. L did not say it
Was a panistment; certainly it mas an asstiction. Nlow then
dochhie call it a blessine? reasonably enonch. becaule (saith
hedic Was themeans eo raise his loul il.’ uminated, and cobrine
him eo scctheface of Sed in Tesus Christ. The Cghe ot che
Bodyis common eous with Ams and Flies, bucche sighEOF
che toul, wich che blened AngelS. This is very well said;
forno man doubrs, but some afflictions may beblessines; but I
doubt Whether the BilhoD, that sayes he reads of. some Who
have put out their bodilreres, becanse thez thoncht tbey vere
an impediment to ihe eze ofthe soul, thinte that they did Well.
T0that mhere I Cay thar brute Bcasts are assticted whichcan-
noc sin, he ansvereth, that chere is a vast ditterence, Decwcen
chole liohe and momentary panes, and che unsusterable and
endlels pains OF LCII. As if the lensth orthe greamessof the
pain,