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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 179, page id 1030877386:0179
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Chins buctrom him. he hath put a henitication thac Wve ex
pectietrom him. There is much difference bermeen my moras
and his inthe sense andmeanine for inthe one there is bonour
ascribed to Cod, and humilirus in him that praveth: but inthe o-
ther presumption in him that prareth, and a detraction from
the honour of 60d. Wrhen L Cay Prayet is noc a caule nOr a
MEaNCS, Ptale caule and meanes in one and the same sense
affirmine that God is not movedby any thine that me do, but
has almaies one andthe same eternal purpose. 10 do the same
thines ibat from eternitu he hath forelenonn sall be done:
and methinesthere ean beno doubt made thereof. But the Bi-
Cop alledceth 2 C Or. T. IT. That St Paul was helped by eheir
pravers, and that ehesite mas beltowed upon ehem by cheie
IBCaAS, and Fames 5. 26. Theefectual and Fervent praver ot
ariohceous man availeth much. In nh ch places the moras
meanes, effedtual, availech, do not signifie any causation; for
nomannor creature livins can more any effect upon Cod, in
vhom ehere is nothine, that hath not been inhim eternallu
hererofore, nor tbat salt not be inhim eternally hercafter.
but do senisie the order in which Ciod hath placed mens pray-
ers, and his omnblessines. And not much ascer the Bistrop
himself saith, Prayer works noc upon G0d, buc uS. There-
fore it is no cause of Gods Will, in sivine ns his blessines.
but is properly a sene, not a procuration of his favour. The
next thine herepliethto is, that Lmalee prarer to be a lind of
thantessivine, to Whichhereplies, He mishe even as Wvel ceil
mechac when a Begoar crares an Alms, and wetien he sires
chantestoric, ic is all one. Why sod Does not a Beccar
move aman by hisprajer, and sometime morketh in him a
compassion not mithont pain; andas the Scripeure callsit, a
pernine ofthe Bovels, rhichis not so in Cod inhen me pray to
him. Our praverto Cod is a duty; it is noc (oto mn. There-
fore thouch our prayers eo man be distinenisted from our
thantes, it is not nece ssary it Bould be so in our prayers and
ehantes t0 God Amichty.
T0tberest of his Reply in this Number 25. there necds no
Farther Ansiver.