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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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ne(s of such admonition, thanthey ehat have not; ana sieh 
have like passions tothose ofthe Admonitor, de more casily con-
ceive, thattobe cood or bad erhich the Admonitor sareth is so.
thanther nhobave creat passions, and such as are contrary to
his. The first nhich is mantof experience maheth children, and
foolsunapt, and the second, hich is strenethos passion, maheth
maamen unmilline to receive admonition; for cbildrenarc ieno-
rant, and mad menin on errour concernine inhat is eoodor
evil forthemselves. Fhis is not to say children and mad men
manterne Liberty, that is, the liberty to do asthermill, nor
tosay tharmen of judeement, or the. Admonitor himsclf bath
adominion over his omn actions, more than children or mad
men, (fortheir actions are also voluntary) or that when he
admonisethhe hath almayes tbe use ofreason, thouch hehave
the use of deliberation, mhich childien, fools, mad men, and
beasts also have. There be theresore reasons mnder heaven
Wrhichthe Bistrop lnomes not of.
Whereas Lhad said, that chinee necelsars may bepraile
worchy, andcopraise a chins isto lay ic iseo0d. Hlc di
singuistreth and saitb,
in True, buc chis goodness is noc a Mecaphy lical soodnels,
To whatloever hatha being is good, nor a Nacural goodnels;
Thepraise oF ic passech Wholly eo che Auchor oF Nature, _C.
Buc a Moral goodnels, or a goodnels ot actions racher chan
OE chines. TheMoral soodnels ofan actionis che contormi-
ey ol ic ro righe Reaton, C.
There hathbeen in the Schooles derived from Aristocles
MecaphyEcks an old Proverb rather than an axiome, Ens.
BONUM, CF VeTUM CONVerEUnEur. From hence the BiChop
hath tabentbis nocionos a Meraphysical coodness; and his do-
Etrine, that whatsoever harb a beinc is cood; and by this in.
terpreceththe Woras of Gen. T. C0d laW all chac hehad made,
and it as very 800d. Bur thereason of those mordsis that
Good is relative tothose thatare pleasedrithit, and not of
absolure senificationto allmen. Cod therefore saith that all
that he had made vas verr 500d, because he mas pleased With
the C reatures of his obn makine. But il al thines vere ab-
Solutely e00d, me Bould be al pleased mithtbeir Bcine, Which
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