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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(190)
ibis. P’or a say not the Dam injorns thines impossible in them.
selves; for s0 TBould say it injoyned conradictories. But Isay
the Lar Somotimes (the Law. makers noc lenomins tbesecret ne-
cessiries of thines to come) injoynes chines made impossible by se-
erce and exrrinsicall causes from all eterniey. Firom this his error
he infers, thar the Lans must be uniust and Tyrannical. and
the transcression of themno fn. But he rho holas that Lars can
be unjust and grannical, will ensily find pretence enonzh undor
any Goverument in the Wortd eo deny obedience to tbe luaos, un
lesse they besuchashe himsels maketh, or adviseth tobe made.
Flesays also, that Y suppose rhe willis inevirably determined by
special instmence fromthe first canse. Tr is true. saving thar sen
selesse mora IniAtuenco, which L nevernsed. But hu consequence
ehon ie is noc mans NVilI, buc Cods will, is not erue; for it may
berhe W ill bothof ehe one and ofthe other, and yet not by con-
currence, as in a leagne, but by subjection of th. Will of man, 10
the Willos God.
(5) FThac Whichheadds of a fudse is altogerher imperei
nenc, asco his defence: Neicher is a Ciril Judse the proper
Judse, norte Lan ofcheLand a prover Rule oF sIn. Y A
Judce is ro jndee of voluntary crimes. Ile has ne commissionto
lock ino the secree causes that mahe it voluntary. Anlbe-
eause rhe Bistop had said, the. Lau cannot justly punist a crime
that proceedeth from necessitys, it Was ne imperrinent ansver to
Say. che Judse lookesac no trisher cause rhen the Will ofche
Doer. And eventhis as hesayetho is enourh to proove that
etie Wiss oFetre Doer did determine ic Polf Freely, and chac che
Maletactor had liberey co hare kepr che La ithe vould. 70
hich Tansiver, that it proves indeed, rhat the Malefactor had
Liberry io have keperhe Lavis he monld; bur it proveth not
that he hadehe Liberer to havea illto Reepthe Lam. Cor
doth it prove thatrhe Will of the Doer dd determine it sels
frecly; for nochine van prove non fenee. But here ron see mbar
the Bishop pursceth in ehis Wnle F sply. namelY, 10 prove, that
a manhath Liborry to dois hevill, which i deny noti; and thintes
ihen hehach donetbat, e hach proived n man harb Liberty to
Will, which he oatios hemills dererminine of ic sels freely. And
uberens he vads, a sudee ous tc vollook ac all essential caules,