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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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eson elie divine Countel, de const. l. L. Cap. 17. 28. e 19.
Thoush he De more caucelous ctan Z. FI. to decline chole
rocks wtrich fome ochers hare made chripurack uvon, Tecche
Divines chouslic hecame t00 neer them, as appears by his
Fpistlecoche Reader, in alacer Edition. And by chac noce
in ehe margenc ofhis venciech Chapter, rrhatsoever l dispare
here, Tsisbmit to the judrmen: of the vise, and beine admoni-
Bed. Lill convert it. One may convince me of error, but not of
obstinacy. S0 FeartuII was he co orerttiooe himlelF, and yet he
maincained boch erue liberey, and erue contingency. T. II.
Caich, hehath not suched his ansiver from an Sect; And TPaV
So much che worle; Ic is becrer to be che disciple oF an old
Sect chancherins leader oF a new.
Concernins che ortier destinction of liberer, in respect ot
the first cause, and liberes in respect of chc second causes,
choust he ill noc sec chac which ic concerned him to ansver,
likechose old Lamia, Which could puc oue cheir eves wtien
chey lilt; As namely, thac the faculer oF willins whenic is decer-
mined in order to the act (Wtich is aII che. Freedom thache
aeknomledsech) is buc like ehe Ereedom ofa bird, when Meis
First in amans hand, ec. Tec he hach espied anocher chins
wherein Pcoreradict my selF, because Lastirm, chacit any one
cause in cheWhole series ofcauses, muchi more the Arst cause,
Be necellary, it decerminoch che rest. Buc, Paich he; ic is ma-
nifest, thac the Arst cause is a necessary cause of ail ehe effects
chac are next. I am slad ver ic is noc I who concradict my
TelF, bur ic is Pome oF his mani est truths wtrich l contradict.
Thac ehe first cause is a necesarr canse of all effects; wtrichI
(a3, 15 a maniEest Faistrood. Those chinas which C0d wills with.
out himsele, he wills Frecly noc necessarily. Whacloerer
cause aets or wortes necessarily, doch aet or work all chacie
can do, or allchacis in iss pover; Bucicis evidene, thac (0d
doch noc all rhinse withouc himselF, whictihe cando, or which
he hach porverro do. He couldhare raised ux children unto
Abraham oFche very Rores, irhrich vere uponthe banks of
Fordun, Cuk. 3. 8. buche did roc. He could hare sene evelve
Lesions oF Angels eo the succour oF Christ, buc he did nOE.
MLasrh. 26. 53. God canmatie Z. IL. live cheveers oF MLe
thuselaj