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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 229, page id 1030877386:0229
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(229
(e) Da reniam Tmverator, ru carcerem, ille sehennam min
naTUT. Exeuse me, OEmperor. thon chrearnest men with Prison but
God threatens me mith Fel.)ThisSentence, and that rhieh he saith
Nu b. 27. ehat neither the civit Fude, is the proper Fudee, vor the
Lau ofthe Landis the properRule of sin, es divers other sagines of
his to the same effect, make it impossible for any Lation inthe Wortd
eopreserve themselves fromcivil Wars. For al men livine equal
sy actnomledeins that the Flish and Ommipotent God is to be
obey d before rhe createst Emperours; cvery one may pretend the
commandement of Cod ro Fustifie his disobedience. And is one man
pretendeth that Cod comm ands one rhine, and another man that he
commands the contrary, wlat equiry is there to allou the pretence
ofone, more then of another? Or wharpeace can there be if they
be ail allome da lite? Fhere wil therefore necessarily arise discord
and civil War, untesse there be a Fadee acreedupon rith Autho-
rity sivento him by every one of them, to Bom them, and inter-
pret ro themtheWord os Cod, rhich Interpretor is alvayes the Fm-
perour, Kins, or other Soverain person, who therefore oucht tobe
obered. But the Bishop thintes that tostem us and intertr et tons
the Wordof Cod, belonseth to the C lerey, mherein Lsannot consent
untohim; Exeuse me, OBishop, rou threaten me mith that jon
cannot do, buc the Fmperour threarenethme With death, andis
able to do rhat he threateneth.
(5) (Secondly, he errs in his superstruction al(o. Thereis
apreat disterence, asco this case of Justityins, or noc sustityine
on Action, becreen Force and Fear, ac. Force dochnoc one-
ly lessen cheun, buc cakes ic quire avay, _cc. ) TknoW not to
har point of my ansver, this P exlyof his is to be applred. Phad
said che actions ofmen compelled, are neverchelesse volun-
TArV. It Seems thac hecalleth Compulsion Force; buc Icall it
a fearofforce, or of dammaze ro be done byforce, by mhich fear
amans will is framed to somenhar, to mhich he had uo mill before.
Force taleth avay the fin, because the Actionis noc his thatis
forced, bat his that forceth. Tt is not almayes so in C ompulsion
becanse in this case a man electeth the L. ese Lvil under the notion
of 600d. But his instances of the betroched Damsel that mas
forced, and of Tamar, may for any rhine there appeareth in the
Text, be Instances of Compulsion, and yet rhe Damsel and Tamar