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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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chintes hecansee.
(a) F Nacure nerer incends etie generacion oE a Monster.
LFaltche causes concur susticienely, a perteet creacure is pro
duced, buc byreason oFche insufticieney or debilicy, or con-
tingene aberration ofsome or ehe causes, Fometimes a MOn
Ser is produced) Fehad no soon. said ehis, but findine his er-
ror, hererracteth it, and confesseth tharche causes of a Monster
ere sufticiene for the production of chat which as produced.
chacis, of d Montter; ocliernise a Monster had noc Deen pro-
duced. Wrhich is all chac Lincende d by sufficieney of che cause
But Whether every safcient eau se be a necessary cause or not, he
meanethro examine in LCumb. 31. In the meane rime, he saich
onely, thar Liberey RonsProm ehe lusticieney, and continsencs
From che debiliey oFchecaule; and lcaves ont necessier, as il
it tame from neither. Zmust note also, that mhere hesays, Ha
cure never intends che generation of a Moncter. Lunderstand
nos hether by nature, hemeane the Auchor of arure, lin
ohich meanihe it deroeares fromCod) or nature it sels as ebe
Oniversal vorke of G0d; and ehen it is absurd; for ehe uni-
verse asone accrecate os chinesnaturat, hath no incention His
Doctrine that folloveth, concernine the generarion of Mon-
sters, is not morth consideration; therefore L leave it nholy te
the Fudcement of the Reader.
e) Ttien he Becates himselF eo His OId help, thac God
map punistr By rixhie os omniporence; chouph chere Wereno
TIn. The question is nornon, Whac God may do, bue whac
Cod will do, accordina ro chac Coremane which he hach made
irh Man Fac hoc es vives, Dochis, and hou Male live.
Tis plaine (1o let passe thatbepurs Punistment here LPnt A
fiction, mabine aerne sentence false) chat is a man do chis ht
Balt live, and he may do this if he wilt. Inthische Bistop
and Fdisacree not. Thistherefore is not thequestion; but he-
ther the willto dothis, er not ro de this be in a mans omn Fle
rion. Ethereas headas Hle rhac wills noc rhe dcaih ota linner-
Aoch mucA leNe Will che deach OF an inNOCenECreature. De
hadforeot for a nhile, that both e00d and evit men areby che
W ill as Codal mortall; vut presently corrects himsetsand sas
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