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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Oourthly, cheorder, beauez, and perfection of the vorte
dochrequire, chac in che Universe Thould B0 RgenES OF aII
Pores, Come necellary, lome Frcc. Come contingene. He
chac Pall makie cicher all chines necestary, suided by destiny:
Orall chines Frec, soverned by election; Or all Chines con-
cinsene, happenins by chance, doch overchron che beauey
and the pertection ot che Wortd.
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T. FE.
FIC fourch Arcument from Reason isthis. TheOrder
Beaury and Perfection of the rorld, requireth, that in
the 2niverse, Bouldbe Acents of all sorts, some nccessary.
some frec, some contingent. Fle that sall mahe allthines ne-
nessary, or allthinesfree, or all thines contingent, doth o-
verthron the beautr and pefection of the World.
Inmhich droument l observe, Eirst, a contradiction. For
Sceine he that mateth ang thine in that hemaketh it, he ma-
Reth it to bemcessary, it follometh, that he that maleth all
thines, maketh alrhines necessary tobe. Asif a morkman
male a carment, the carment must necessarily be. S0 it God
mate every thine, everythins must necessarily be. Perhaps
the beaut, of zhe World requireth (thonchme enom it not)
that some Acents Bould verte mithont deliberation, whicb
he calls necessary Acents. Andsime Acents mith delibera-
tion, andthose, bothhe and Y caltree Acents. And that
some asents Bouldvorte aud e nocbnom hor; And those
effects me boch cal contingent; But this hinders not, but
that he that elccteth may have his election necessarily deter-
mined to one by former causes; And that which is contingent,
and impated eo Forinne, be nevertheless necessary, and de-
pend on pricedent necessary causes. For by contingent, men
de noc mean that which hathno cause, but which hathnot for
cause any ehins whicb We perceive. As for F xample; when
aTravailer meers rrith a shover, thejourney had a cause, and
the rain bada canse sufficient enonch to produseit, but be-
cassse the jeurney caused not the rain, nor the rain thejournes.
we say, they vere continsent one toanother. And ihus jon
sec thonoh there bethreefores ofevents. Neccssary. Con
tinsent,
Numb. 16.
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