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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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beagainsi rhe Law, wtich in oux sense is mosterue, it lie under
stand a just Lam, and a trec rarionall vill. (b) Buc sapposine
ashe doch) chac the La injoins chinss impollible in chem
selresco be done tben ic is an unjust and Fyrannical LaW, and
che cranserection oF is is no (In, Hoc eo do chac Which nerer WaS
in our pover 10do. And supposins litemise (as he doch) chac
themillis inericably devermined by special inAuence from ehe
Cirk cause. chen ic is Boc mans wil, buc. 60d5NN ill, and AONS
essencially trom che Law oF Choodnels.
(5) Thac which he addes ot a fudse, is altozecher imperri-
nere, as co his detence. Ncicter isa Ciril fudse the propec
fudse, norche Lam oFche Land the proper Rule oF Sin. BWC
ic maties ronsly asainst hims For the fudee soesupon a 500d
fround and eren ehis Whict he conteslech, chac che fudre
looks at no hieler cause, thenthe mi of the doer proOres,. hac
chewill oFche doer did decermine it sels Frecly, and chac che
malefactor had liberer ro have KepecheLam, it he mould:
Cerrainly, a Judse oughe ro lo0kac aIl marerial circumstances.
and much more ac all essenrial causes Whecher erery suffiei-
ent conse be a necessary cause will eome ro be examined more
properlr, Numb. 3T. Forche presene, ic Mall suHice co Lay.
char liberey Aous From chesufticieney, and continsener From
chedebiliey ofche cause. (d) NacureNerer incendsthe se-
neration oFa monster. TFaII the causes concur sufficienct, a
a perfect creature is produced, buc by reason ofche insufficien-
Cy, Or debilicy, or continsene aberrarion ot lome otche causes
Toretimes a Monster is produced. N ex the causes et a MonAtor
vere susticiene For ehe production oF thac ntrick ias produ-
ced, chacusa Monster, octermise a Moniter had not BECH prO-
duced. Whacis ic ehen? A Monster is not produced by ver-
tue oPehac order Whieh is sec in Nacure, Due by eHe concin-
ent aberrarion oEsome oF che nacural causes in FHeIr CONCUE-
RCNCC. The order sec in Nacure, is, chac erery like Mould Be-
set ies likie. Buc supposins che concurrence oFche caules to be
suchas ic is, in che generarion ot a Monster, the generarion ot
aMonster is necessary; as all che evenes in che norid are Wten
cherare, chacis, by an hypocherical necestier. (C) Thenhe
becakes him selFco his old help, thac Cod may purict by ristie
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