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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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indivisible, and not a succession. Nor in vohat sense it can be said,
that an infinite point, sc. mhereinis no succession, can comprehend
all times, thonch time besnocessive.
These phrases Tfind not in rhe Scripture. T monder rherefore, What
vas the diftenofthe School. men, tobrine them up, unle (sthey
thoughe a man could not be a erue Christian, u: less his understan-
standins befirst stransled wich such hard sayines.
AAnd rhus much in ansmer to his discourse. mherein Lthinte not
enely his sguadrons, but also his reserves of distinctions are de-
feared. And nov rour Lordstip sail have my doctrine concerninque
thefame question, ith myreasons for i posirively and briesty ac l
can, mithont ans tearms of sert in plain Enelish.
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asainst any Dirines, buc in war ofexaminarion oF a
French Treacise, wrtich pour Pordchips Brocher did methe
honour eo Mew me aE Tork; (b) My asserrionis musterue,
chac me oughe nocco desere a certain truch, because ve are
noc able co comprehend checertain manner. Such a cruchis
chac wtich I maincain, chac ehe ill of man in ordinaru actions
is tree trom extrinsecal derermination. A eruth demonstrable
inreason, received and beliered by all the morid. And there-
fore chouphi I be noc ableco comprehend or express exactiy
the certain manner how ic consilts cogecher with GodsFter-
nall Prescience, and Decrees, Which excecd my weak capacier,
vec I ouxheco adhere rothaceruch, wtich is manifest. BuE
T. FI. tis opinion of the absoluce necessiry oF all evenes, by
reason ot their ancecedent decerminacion in their extrinsecal
and necessary causes, isno such cercain Truch, buc an innora-
tion, a stranse paradox, withoue probable grounds, rejected
by ali Auchours; rea, by all chemorid. Neicher, istheman-
ner how chie second couses do operate lo oscure, or Potranscen-
dene abore thereach ofreason, as the Fcernal Decrees of60d
are. And cheretore in boch ehese respects he cannor chassense
ehe same priviledse. Iam in possestion of an old cruch derived
Dy intrericance or succession From mine ancectors. And chere-
fore, choush Pivere noc able to clear every quirkin Law, vet
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