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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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day. ile milt hieh he sall have totbedoine of aisu actionio
morrom, as that it may net be chanred by some externat aBc
dent ox etber, as there salt aperis more or less advancaze
1omate him persevere in therril to tbe same action, er 10
Will it nomore. When a man in: endeth 10 p ay a aeb at a
certain time, if he sec ihat the deceinine of the money for a
sittle loncer may anvantare himself; and , cethno oiber disad-
vantare équivalent libely 10 follon uxon the derention, bath
his vill chaneed by the aavantare, and therefore bad not de-
termined his Willhimselt: but wher he foresceth discredit or
perhaps imprisonment, iben his er ill remaineth the same, and
is determine d by the thonches he hathof his Creditor, whois
therefore an external cause ofthe determination ofthe debtors
rrill. Ehis is so evident to allmen livine, thouch theynever
studied Schocl. Divinity, that it mill be verystrance is he
dram from it the creat impiety he pretends to do. Acain my
opinion is onty this, that wbat soever Cod foretnomes pall come
10pass, it cannot possibly bethat that sall not come to pass.
Dut thac rhich cannot possibly not come topass, that is said
by alt men tocone ropassnecessarily: therefore all events that
Cod Foretnomes Balcome to pass, Ball come to pass necessari-
ly. If therefore rhe Bistrop dram Impiery fromthis, he fal-
lethinto the Impiety of dengins Gods Prescience. L et us sec
nom hor hereasoneth.
bFirst, heerres inmaltins inward Diecy eo consit meer-
ly in che estimacion ot chejudgement. TEchis vere (o, WhaE
hinders buc rhac ehe Derils Pould have as muchinmard Piecy
aschebest Christians, For chey clcem Cods porvertobein-
tinice, and cremble.
Tsaid chatimothines concurr dto Dicey; one, to esteem his
porver as bichly asis possible. The other, that we sienisie
thac estimation by our vords and actions, that is to say,
that e morssip him; This later part of Piety he lea-
veth ont; and then it is much more easie to conclnde as he
doth, that the Devils may have inmard Piety. But neithe;
(e doththe Conclusion follon; For Goodnessis one of 6ods
Povers, (namely that Porver by whichne morkethinmen, the
Hope they have inhim) and is relative; and therefore nn-