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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 212, page id 1030877386:0212
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he adis that L mistake ehe meanine ofthe mord, Liberty of speci
fication. Tam sure that in that may herein Pexpound them, there
is no absurdity. But ifhe Cay T understand not rhat the School-
menmean by it, Twill not contend With him; for Lebinte they lenov
not rohat they mean th. nselves.
P And here he Falls into anocher invectire acrinst
distinctions, and Scholastical exprections, and the Doctorsot
che Church, wtio by ehiis means crrannized over cheunder-
Standins of orher mmen. WVhac a presumprion isthis, For one
PrivaECMAN, _C. ) Thar he may bnom Jam no enemy to intelli-
sible distinctions. Lalso ill use a distinction inthe defence of my
self acainst his his accusation. TCay therefore chat some distin-
etions are Scholastical onely, and some are Scholaltical and sa-
piencial also. Acainst chose thar are Schiolastical onely, I do-
and may inveich. But acainst those chac are Scholaltical and
Sapiential also, ido not inveizh. Likemise some Doctors of the
Church (asSuarez, Johannes a Duns and their imitators)
tobreed in men such opinions as the Church of Rome thoneht su-
rable in their interest. did vrite suchthines, as neither other men
nor themselves understood. These Lconfesse Thave a litile seieh
ced. Orber Docters of the Church (as Marrin Lucher, Philip
Melanetton. Totn Calvin, William Perkins, and others) that did
rrite their sense clearly. Lnever seiehred but alvares very much
reverenced, and admire d. Wherein then lieth my presumption? is ie
bebecanse Lam a private man, let the Bisop also tahe heed he con-
tradiet not some of those ihom the World morthily esteemes. Icast
he also (for he is a privare man) be taxed of presumpri
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(h) Whac chen; mustthe Logicians lay alide their First and
second incentions, cheir ABsracs and COncreES, _C. Must ehe
Moral Philo(opher quic his means and extreames, his Principia
concenita e agnisira, his liberey ot contradiction and contra-
riecy, his necessiey absolute and Hlypocherical. _c. Mustche Na-
cural Philosopber sive over his incentional species, ec. Because
chey do noc relictr ich T. FT. his Palaces) P confesse that amone
the Coricians, Barbara, Celarent, Darii. Ferio, _C. are termes of
Art. But is ihe Bisop thine that words of first and second incen-
tion, char Absract es C oncret, thatsubjects ex Predicates, Moods
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