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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 133, page id 1030877386:0145
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niencesthat folion the doctrine of nec.sss, made clear, ihat ihe
same inconveniences follon net the dictrine os Necessiy any
more than tberfollom this eruch, wtracloever allDe, Mall De.
rrhich all men must confess; The same also follomethuponthis;
that whacloerer Cod toretinowes cannoc Due come EO paIS,
in such time and maneer as he hach forebenonn il. It is there-
fore evident chat these inconvenience sare notrationally de duced
frem ibose Tenets. Arainit is a truth manif est io alt men,
that it is not in a mans pover to day, to choose rhat xill he
Balhaveto morrom, or an bover, or any time afcer. Inter-
venine occasions, business, (mhich the Bistro calls tristes)
Tristes of hich the Bistrop maketh here a great businessto
chance theWril. No man can say nhat he will de to morrom
anlesshe foreknom (mhich noman can) hat sall happenbefore
tomorrom. Andthisbeins the substance of my opinion, it must
needsbe that mhen he deducerh fromit, that Ciansells. Aris,
Armes, Aredisines, Fcacbers, Praisc, Prayer, and Piety, are
invain; thar bis deductionis false, aud his raciocination falla-
cy. Andthonch. L need make no other ansimer to all that bc can
object acainst me, yet IBall veremarte out the causes of his se-
verat Parologismes.
Thole Laves (hesaith) are unjust and cyrannical, wtich
do preseribe chines absolucis impossible co bc done, and pu-
nich menfor noc doins ofchem. In nhich moras thisis one
absurditu that aLan can beunjust, for alt Lamesare Divine or
Civit, neicher of. which ean benniust. Of the first there is no
donbr. And as for Civil Laves they are made by every man
that is subjest tothem, because every one of them consentethto
the placins of the Lexistative Pomer. Another isthis in the
Tame mords, ebat he supposeth there may be Lamesthat are not
Trrannical; for is he that maketh chem have the soveraien Po-
ver, they may be Recal, but not T grannical; if T grant fieni-
fie not Kinc, as he thintes it doth not. Another is inthe same
mords, chaca P. aW may preleribe chinss abColucely impossible
in chemselres eo bedone. When he sayes imposble inchem-
Telres, he understands noc whachimself means. Impossible in
ehemselres are contradictions onely, astobe, and not tobe, at
sbe same time, which ehe Divines say is not possible toCod. AI
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