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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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causes. Can any man bur a Schoolman thine the Wil is vo.
luntary? Dut yet the Wil is tho cause of voluntary actions.
f. D.
AuII. 24. PiTFely, and lasly, che Dirine labours eo sind oue a may hon
liberey mav consist wich the prescience and decrees ot God.
Buc et chis I had noc very lone since occalion eo vrice a fuil
discourse, in ansiver co a Prearile asainst che prescience ot
chinss concinsent. IMall For che present only repeat chese evo
chings. First, we oushe noc to desere a cerrain truch, because
e are noc able eo comprehend checertain manner. C0d
Bould bebut a poor 60d, it me vere able pertectly eo com
Prehend all his Actions and Attribures.
Secondly, in my poor judemene, Wrhich Pever do and erer
Bail submie eo berrer, che readielt as eo reconcile Conein-
Sence and Liberer, wich che decrees and prescience oF C0d, and
most remoce trom che alcercarions oFchese cimes, is eo subjeat
fucure concingenes to the aspect ot c0d, accordino corhae
Prelentialiey which chey tave in ccerniey. Noc chac chinss
tucure, Wrhich are noc vec existene are co existene wich (10d
buc because che intinice knomledsc of Cod, incirclins all cimes
in the poine of eternier, doch accain cocheir Fucure Beins.
trom uhence procecds cheir objectire and inteilisible Being.
Themain impedimene which recps men trom subscribins co etis
may is, because chey conceire eternicy co be an everlattins suc-
cettion, and noc one indirisible point. Bur il eliey consider,
thac whracsoerer is in God is God; Thae chere are no accidens
in him, For chac which is infinicely perfect cannor De furtter
perfected; Thac as Cod is noc wise buc Wisedom it selF, nOE
just buc Pultice ic selF, Po he is noc ecernal bur Lcernicy ic selF
Ther must necds conclude char cheretore this erernicy is indi-
visible, Decause God is indivisiole, and cherefore noc suC-
cestire, buc altogerter an infinice poine, comprehendins all
cimes wichin ic selF.
T. II.
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