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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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or as the State monld have il, or accordine 1o the Lam of the
Land, he ansmers, that Y miltate inAinirely. And his rea-
son is, because e olten wistr whseis proficable, or aelighe
Ful, Wichoue resardins as we oughe, What is honelt. There
is no man livine that seeth all the consequences oy an action
fromthe becinnine to the end, mhereby to meich tho wole
sum ef ihe 500d, mith the mhole sum of the evill consequents.
e choose ne further than We can meieh. That is 500d t0e-
very man rhieh is (o farre eood as he can sec. AH thc real
ceod, which me cal honest and MCorally vertuons, is ihat Whicts
isnot repuenant tothe Lam Civit or Natural: forthe L aW
is al therieht Reason mehave, and thonchbe, as ofren as it
disaereeth mith his omn reason denie it, is the infaltible rule
of Moral coedness. Fhe reason Whereof is this, Lbat becanse nei-
ther mine northe Bistops reason, is richt Reason, fit 1obe a
ruleos our Moral actions, e have therefore set up over our
selves a Soveraien Governour, and acreed chat his Lares
Ballbe antons, whatsoever they be, in the phace of Riebt
reason, to dictare rons what is really co0d; in the Came man-
ner asmen in plagine turn ap Trump, and as in plagine their
came their Morality consisteth in not renonncine, so in our
civil conversation, our Morality is al conteined in not dis-
oberins ofihe Larres.
20 my question, Whecher nochinq could pleale him chac
proccededtrom Necestey, heansvers, jes. Thefire plea (eth
him nhen he is cold, and he sayes it is e00d fire, but does not
praise it Morally. He praiseth (be sayes) first the C rea-
tor of thefire, and then bim mho providedit. Ile docs Well
yet he praiseth the fire whenhe saich it is cood, thouch not
Morally. Fle does not say it is a just fire, or amise, or a mett
manered fire obedient tothe Lames, but these Actributes it
seems he sivesto God, as il justice rere not of his nature, but
efhis manners. And in praisine Morally him that provi-
ded it, hescemes tosay, he mould not say the fire mas eood, if
hevere not Morally e00d tbat did provide it.
20 that which Lhad ansmered concernine remard and pu-
nistment, hehath replied (hesayes) sufficientir before, and
that