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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 120, page id 1030877386:0132
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are nocthe ordinations of rishe Reason, nor insticured tor
ehe common good, nor prelcribe chac which ouehe eo be
done, helaid cruly, buc nochins ac all, co his pnrpole. Bur
it hre incend (ashe doch) chaechere are no Laes de facto
whichare cheordinances oFreason errins, insticured Forthe
common hure, and prelcribins chac wtich ousHENOCEO BC
done, he is much mistatien. Pharachs LaW eo deonn ehe
Male Children oFche Israclites, FXOd. F. 22. Webuckadnez
zars Law, char whioloerer did noc FaII donn and worctrip
ehie solden Imase which he had sec op, Mould be cast inco
thefiery turnace, Dan. 3. 4 Darius his Law, chac wtro-
Coerer Mould aska Pecirion ot any C0d orman, For chirey
dares, Pare oFchekins. Mould be cast inco cheDen OF Li-
Ons, Dan. 6. 7. Ahasncros his L. aW, Eo dettroy che Ten-
imhr Nacion, rooc and brancli, Fst her 3. 13. The Pharilees
Law, chac utioloerer contessech Christ, Mould be excom.
mudicaced, Fohr 9, 22. Were all uninst LaWes.
c The ground ofchis crrouris as sreac an errourie (elF.
(Such an are heharh learned oF repackins Paradoxes) whicti
is ehis. Thac every man males by his consent the Lam mhich
heis bonnd tolcep; IE chis vere erue, ic mould prelerre
them, iEnoctrom beins unjust, vec trombeins injurious:
Buc ic is noc true. The posicire Law of Cod, conceined
in che old andnem Testamene; TheTam oFNacure, Wriccen
in our heares by chefinserot Ood; The Lawes ot Conque
rors, Whocome in byche pover oEche Sord; The Laus
oF our Ancelters, Wrhich vere made betore me vereborn.
do all obliseus co che oblerrarion of chem, vec ro none ot
allehele did we pire our actual consene. Over and abore
all chele exceptions, he buildsopon a urons Foundarion
chac all Masestares ac First, vere electire. Thekrst 60.
vernours were Fachers of Families; and hen chole pecry
Princes conid nor aftord compecene prorection and securjeo
cocheir subjects, many ofchem did resien cheir sereral and
respectire incerills ineo rhehandsoF onc joine Father ofche
Counery.
Andchousirhissround had beenerue, chac all Arst Le-
hillacors mere electire, Which istalse, vec his superstructure
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