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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 152, page id 1030877386:0164
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152
Pell the canses ofjoy. Sothat thenecessity of the actionstaketls
avay neither of those partsof repentance, frief for the errour
norjoy for thereturnine. And for Prayer, mhereas he saith
thatibe necessiey ofthines destroyes prayer, Ldeny it. For thouch
prayer benone of the causes that moove Gods Will, his Will be-
ins unchanseable, yet since ve find in Gods Word, he will not
sive his blessines but to those that aste them, the motive topray-
er isthe same. Prayer is the siftof God, nolessthan the bles.
fines. And the prayeris decreed rogether in the same decrec
mbercinthe blessine is decreed. Fismanifest, that chantesgir-
inc is no cause of the blessine past: and that which is past is
sure, andnecessary. Tet even amonest men, thants is in use
as an actenomledeimentof the benefit past, thouch me sould ex-
pect no nem benefit for our cratitude. And prayer to God Al.
michey is but chanlessivine for his blessines in general; and
thonch it precede the particular thins me aste, vet it is not a
canse or means of it, but a sienification that me expect nothine
but from Cod, in Cuch manner ashe, not as me will. And oux
Saviour by mordof monthbidsus pray. Thy will, not our will
bedonc, and by example teaches us thesame, for he prayedthus,
Factier, iF ic bechy will, lec chis cup DalS, _C. The end of
prayer, as of chantessivine, is not to more, but tohonour G0d
Almiehey, in actenomledsins that hat me aste can be effected
byhimonely.
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Hlope. Ilo Wi Depersvaded in rime, thac ic is noc
the Coreroulnels, or Ambicion, or Senluailier, or Sloch.
or Prejudice oF his Readers which renders chis doctrine of
absolurenecessiey danserous, buc choc ic is inies onn nature
destructirero erue eodliness; a And choust liis ansiver
consist more oF opposicions chan ofsolurions, vec lwill noe
willinely leare onc grain ot his marterunveished. b First
he erres in makivs inmard piery co consilt meerly in thec-
Rimation oFche judsement. TEchis vere (0, Whachinders
buechacche Derils Monld haveas much inward piecy asthe
Bect Christians, Forches elteem Gods poverro be intinite.
and