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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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eosome bicher Dover; bat touse so unscemly à Phrase as 10 say
ihat Codis the cause of sin, becanse it sonndeth so like to sayine
that God Sinneth. Jean never be forced by so vcal an areumss
asthis ofhis. Lucher says We act necessarily; necessarily by ne-
celtier ofimmutabilley, noc by necectier oF constraine, ihat
is in plain Fneliss necellarily, buc noc against our wills. Z an
chiussars Tract. Theol. cap. 6. Thes. L. The Froedom of our
Will doth noc consist inthis, ehac chere is no necelsiey oF Oue
sinmine; bue inchis, ehac chere is no constraint. Bucer. LIb. de
Concordia. Whereas ehe Cacholieks Pay, manhas Frec Will.
we must understand ic of freedum From constraine, and nOc
freedom trem necestier. Calvin. Inst. C ap. 2. 5. 6. And
ehus ChaII man be said cotare Frec WiII, noc because he hach
equall Ercedom eo do 5o0d and eril; buc because he doesthe
erillhe does noc by constraine but willinsly. Monsr. du Mou-
lin, in his Buckler ot che F’aich, Arricle 9. The necestiey ot
Tinnins is noc repusnam to che treedom ofche Will. Wienels
the Verils who are necessarily wicked, ands et sn freelv wich.
our constraine. And the Synodof Dort. Liberey is nOEODDO.
Sice co all kinds of necellier and decermination. Ic is indeed op.
potice 1o chie neceslier ot constraine buc Kandech ell enousti
rich chenecestiey oFintalhbilier. L conld add more. Por all ibe
famons Dectors of ihe Reformed Churches, and mirh them S6. AW
sustine are ofthe same opinion. Nonc of these denied rhat Cod is the
cause of al Motion es action, or that Godis thecanse of al Lavs;
and yet they vere never forced 1o say that God is the canse of sict.
(0) Theymbo inventedthis term of Actus Imperatus under-
Aood nor (heCaieh) any, bine what it signified. NO: WVhy nOL?
Ic scemeth come cher understood it becter chenthose wo ex-
cept asainstic. Ther knem chere are mencaII cerms Whichare
otily conceired in che mind, a5 ell es vocalterms, which
are expressed wichche congue, _c. In this place the Bisop
hath discoveredthe cronndof all his errors in Philosophy, which
is this, thac hechinheth, inhen he repeateth the mords of a propo-
sition inbismind, tharis. wohen he fancierts the mords ithont
speatine them, thar ehen hec conceiveth the trines hich the
mords signifie, andthis is the most senerat cause of false opi
nions. For men cannever be deciived in the conceptions of
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thines.