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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 116, page id 1030877386:0128
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l116
tainos death probibit stealine, and there beaman hoby the
streneth of rempration is necessitated rosteal, and is there npon
pet to deatb. does nocthis punistment deterr others fromthefre
is it noc acause that others steal not e dothit not frame and
make thcir vil to instice: T0 make the Lam is therefore t0
male a cause of fustice, and to necessitare instice, and conse-
quenely it is no iniustice tomale such a Lam.
The instieutiox of the Lar is not to erieve the delinguent
for that whichis passed, and not to beundone, but to mate
him and others just, that esse monldnot be (0. And respect-
eth not theevil act past, butthe sood ro come. En somnet
as mithont this cood intention offuture, no past act of a delin-
quent conld instifie his tillins inthe sicht of God. But pon vill
Cay, hou is it just to teill onc manto amend another, is mhat
iere done vere nece ssary E. Tothis Lansiver, thatmen are just-
Iytilled, necfor that their actionsare not necessirated, but
thactherare spared and preserved, because they are not noxi-
ons; for rmhere thereisno Lam, there nobilline, nor ang
thins else canbe uniust. And by thericht of. Nature ve de-
Stroy, withont beine unjust, aul that is noxions both beasts
and men. And for beasts me till them justly, when me doit
in order to our onn preservation. And get I. D. consesseth,
that their actions, as beine oneli spontancons and not free are
abt necessitared and derermined to that one thine mhich they
Ball do. For men, rhen me male Societies or Common-
vealths, e lay donn our riche to hill, excepring in certain
cases, as murther, thefr, or otber offensive actions; So that
theriehe Whichthe C ommonmealthhathro put a man to death
fer crimes, is nat created by the Lam, but remains from the
first richtof Nature, which every manhathto preserve him.
self, for ehat the Lam doth not tale chatricht amay, in case
ofcriminals, whorere by Lam excepted. Men are not there-
fore put todeath, or panisted for thar their theft proceedeth.
fromelection, but becanse it masnoxions and contrary to mens
preservation, and the onnistment conducins to the preserva.
tion ofthe rest. In as much as copunis those that do volunta-
tary burt, and none etse, framethand maleth mens wills such.
as men monldhave them. Andrbus it is plain, that from the ne
cessitu