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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(232
hc understands what Phave here vritten, it is ne monder he p
derstandeth not the rruchof the question. Isaid not, that wlien
e consider ehe causes ofchinss, but When we sec and Kron
che Arensch chat moresus, e acknomedse necessier. No
Such ching (Cays the Bisop) buc just che contrary, the more me
consider, and checlearer we understand, the greacer is the Li-
DCrEy, XC. Isthere any donbris a man coula foretenov, as God
Foretnons that Which is hereaster to come to passe, but at he moula
also see and hnom she causes hich sall brins ic ropasse, and hov
chey mort. and male che effect necessary; for necessary it is rhat-
Soever God foreen: meth. But me thar fore see them not, may con-
sider ac much as m: will, and understand as clearly as me mill, buc
are never theneerer tothe lenoivledse of their necessiry; and that l
said vas the cause rhy me impute those events to Liberty, and not
+ocauses.
(1) TLast, he relSuS, chae the Wil dochchose of necessit.
as well as the fire burns of necessier. IFhe incend no more but
ehis, chat Election is cheproper and nacural Aet oFche WVil, a5
burnins is ofchetire, _c. Hespeaks cruely, buc most imper.
cinenely; For che queltionis noc nom otche Flectire pover, in
acta primo, ec.) Flere acain hemales mespeate non sense; Isaid
ehe man choosech oFnecessiey, he says, Isay che Will choosech
et necestier; And nhy, but becanse hechines Loucht to speate as
he does, and Cay, ashe does here, that Flection is che Aet oPthe
Nil. No. Election is the AEt of a man, as porver 10 F. lect is the
porver of aman. F lection and Wr il are all one Aet of a man, and
the porver ro F.Lcet, and the poiver ro Wril one andthe same poiver of
aman. But the Bisbop is confonnde d br the use of calline by the
name of Wil, the pover of willine in thefuture, as they allo vere
confonnded that first bronche in chis senselesse term of Actus pri-
muS. My meanine is, that the Election LBall have of any chine
hereaster, is nom as necessary, as that the fire that nom is, and
continueth, Bail burn any combustible marter thronn into it here-
after. Or 10 use his oun terms, the Wil hach no more poiver to
Suspendirs illine, ehen theburnine of the fireto suspendies burn-
ine. Ox rather more properly, the man hathno more porver to su
Spendhis Will, thenthe fire, to suspend his burnine; rhich is con-
rrary eo that, which he montd have, namely, thas a man sonld have
porves