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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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lise, buc in torments. To Which Lhave ansmeredence before in
thi Book, and spoten mueh more amply in another BouR, t0
Which the B.sop hath inclination to male an ansiver, as appea
rethbys his Epistletothe Peader. That which folloveth 10 the
end of this number, hath been ureed ant an vered alreadus
diverstimes; Ltherefore passe it over.
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Numb. P UT ehe PatrONS OF necestiey Being driven OUE OF che
D plain held wich reason. hare cerrain retrears or distincti
ons, whichches Ase unco for retuse. Firtt, cher distinsum
becireen Scoical necessity and Christ an necettiy, becween
Wrhich cher make a chreetold d Aerence.
First, Cay chey, cheScoieks did subject Fupicer e0 destiny, buc
buc me subject destinv eo Cod; Tansiver, chiac the Stoical and
Christian destins areone. and chelame, fatum quasi effarum
fovis. Dear Seneca. Destiny is the necessiry ot allthines, and
actions, dependine upon the disposirion of fupiter, 55c. I. add
thac che stoicks setc a creater liberey to Fupiter over destins,
chanchele Sroicall Chrictians doco Crod over his decrees, ei
cher For ehe beginninss oFchines as Furipides, or Cor che pro.
sxels oFthem as Chrysippus, or ac leas ofche circumstances ot
cime and place, as all of chem generally, S0V irsit. Sed tra-
bere es moras ducere, 5c. 30Osrris in Apuleius, promiseth
him eo prolons hislite Dltra faco constitura tempora, berond
cherimes ser donn by che deltimes.
NexE, chey Cay, chac che Scoicks did hold an erernail Aux and
necestary connexion ot caules, bue cher beliere char 610d
dochact, praeter es contra naturam, besides and asainst na-
cure. Lanliver, chac ic is noc muchmaterial, Whether ches aF
rribure necelsiey co Cod, Or to che SFaErS, Orto a connexion
OFcauses, (0 ascher establim necestier. The former realons
donoc only condemnthe ground or foundation ot neceser,
buc much more necestier ic selFupon whac sround soerer. Fi-
Cher chey must run inco chis absurdiey, chac che effectis de-
cermined, che cause remarins underermined, or els hold
suck a necellarus convenion os causes, as che Scoichs did.