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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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eannot imaeine when livine creatures of all sorts are often on
torments, as wellas men, ihat C,0d can be displeased mithit
Withont rhose vill they neither arenor couldbe t all cormen-
red Nor pet is he delichted mith it; bus health. Sicbness,
ease, torments, life and deathare mithont ai passion in him
dispenced by him, and he putieth an end eo thene then nhen
they end, anda becinninqe hen theybegin, accordine to his
eternal porpose, Which cannot be resisted. That the necesst.
cy arenerh a delieht of God inthe torments of bis creatures.
is even as trueas rhat it mas pitey and commiseration in the
doces, that made them lickthe fores of La2aTUS. Or h.w doth
theopinion of nec siey destroy che fustice ot Cod, or matie
nim eo pun Ch. ehe creacures For chac wtich vas his omn act d
IF al asstictions be punistiments, for rhose act are allother
Creatures punisted rhich cannot fin ? Woy may not God
mahe the affiction both of those menihat he hath elected, and
alsoofthose mhom he hath reprobated, the nece (ary canses of
the conversion of those be hath elected; their oun afictions
servins therein as chastisements, and the assictions of ibe rest,
as examples? But he may perhaps thinte it no injustice +o pu–
vistrthe creatures that cannot sin, vith temporary punist.
ments, when neverthele (sit vonld be injustice totorment the
Jame creatures éternally. This maybe somerbat to Mect-
ness and Cruelcy, but nochine at al 1o fustice and Enjustice:
For in punistine the innocent rhe injustice is equat, thonch
ehe punistments be unequal. And vhat crueltycan be crea-
ner than that mhich may be inferred from this opinion of the
Bistrop, that. God doth torment eternally, and miththe cxtreg
mest deeree oftorment, al those men rbichhave sinned, that
is to say, au maneind fromthe creation torhe end ot the morid.
rhichhave not believed in Zesus Christ, mherenf verys fer in
respect of the multiende of oihers have somuch as heard of his
vame, andthis, wben Faih in Christ isthe sift of God him-
selt, andrbehearts of alt men in his hands to frame tbem t0
the belief of mhatsoerer he mill have them to belieocs
bath no reason ther fore for his part to tax any opinion, for
He
ascribine to Goacither oruelty or iniustice. Or bon doth it
destroy che Porer ot Ciod, or matie him eo be the Auctior