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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Is third Aroument consisteth in other inconvenienees
Arhich he saich will follon, namely impiety and necti
sence of Relisions duties, Repentance, and zeal 10 6ods ser-
vice. Fombich Tansmer, as tothe rest, that theq follom not-
Tmust consess, if me consider the far createst part of mantind.
not asthey Bould be, but as they are, that is, as men Whor
cither the study of acquirine Wcalch, or preferments, or nhom
the apperite of sensnal delichts, or the impatience of medita-
tine, or the rast imbracine of vrone principles, have made
unape to discu(s thetruth of thines, that the dispute of this
question mill rather hurt thanhelp their piety. And therefore,
is be had not descredthis ansiver, Lvould noc have vritten it.
Nor do Trorite il, bne in hope jour Lordship, andhe will Reep
Et private. Nevertheless in verytruth, the necessity ot
events does not of il self dram mith it any impiety at all. For
piety consistethonelu in emorhines; One, that me honour God
in our hearts, hich is, thar me thinte of his porver as hichly
as we can, fortohonour any thine is nothins else bat to think
it to beof creat porver. The orher that me sienifie tbat ho-
nour and est eemby our mords and actions, Which is called cul-
TUS, Or morsip ofGod. Fle therefore that thineeth that all
thines proceed from Gods Eternal Will, and consequent ly
are necessary, docs he not thinke God Omnipotent ? does he not
esteem of his porver ashishly as is possible e nhicb isto honour
Godas much as can be in hisbeart. Arain, he that thinbeth
so, is he not more apt by external acts and mords to actenom-
ledee it, than he that chinleth othermise e T et is this exter-
nat achnomledeement the Came thine hich me call Worstip.
Sothis opinion fortisteth piety in bothlinds externallus and in-
ternalli, andtheretore isfar from destroyins it. And tor
Repentance, hich is nothine bnt a eladrecurnine into the
rieht may, afterthecries of beine ont of the may, though the
canse that made him eo astray vere nece ssary, per there is no
ason Why heshoulanor crieve; and açain, thoneh the canse
hy he returned into the may mere necessary, there remaines