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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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TEely cate auay liberer, and vou cake avay che very nature.
LoFerit, and cheformal reason of (In. IF che hand, of che
Paincer vere che law ot paincins, or chehand ot cheWeiter
che law ofirricins, whacloerer chie one did vrice, or theocher
painc, must intassibls bes00d. Sceins cheretore, chac che Arst
cause is cherule and L. aW oFBoodnels. il ic do necesticate che
will, or che person to evil, cicher b, ic selE immediacly or me.
diacly by necellary Aux ot secondcaules, ic willno lonser be
evill. Theessence oFlin consilts in chuis, chac one commie chat
utrich hemishe aroid. IF chere heno liberey eo produce sin
chere is no such chins as sin che world. Theretore iC aPDCaTS,
boch trom scripeure and Reason, chac chereis erue Liberty.
T. H.
 Othe fist Arcument fromreason, whichis, that if liberry
a betaken amay, the nature and formal reason of sin is taken
avay Lansmer, by dengins the consequence. T he nature of sin
consisteth in this, that the action done proceed fromou nill, and be
acainst the Lam. A Fudse in judsine mbether it be jin or not,
hich is done asainst the La, l’ols at no hicher cause ol the acti-
on thenthe vill os the doer. Nou When J Cay the action mas neces-
Parr, I de not say it vas done acainst che willo the doer, bur rich
his will, and se necessarily, because mans vill, tbatis, every act
oftheriil, and purpose of man had a sufficient a d theretore a ne-
cessary canse, and consequent ly every voluntary action mas neces-
sitated. An action therefore maybe voluncary and a sin and ne-
vertheless be necessary. And becanse Cod may afflict by ricbe
derived from his Omniporeney, thonsls sin vere not. And the ex
ample of punistment on voluntary pnners, is the causethat pro-
duceth Justice, and maleth sin less frequent; for God 10 punist
Such sinners, as Thave Beved before, is n injustice. And us
son have my ansiver ro his objections, boch ont of Scripeure and
Reason.
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