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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(259
Imislic justly hold my polsection uneil a beeter ticle Were
Mewed Foranocher. He is no old Poressor, but a new Pre-
cender, and is bound co make sood his claime by evidene
proots, nec by meal and inconsequene surpolicions, or induce.
menes, uch as chose are wtrich he ulech here, ot praises, disprai-
ses remards, punistments, the memory of. 5.0d ana cvil sequels,
and evenes, Which may incline ehe mill, bue neictier can nor do
necellicace the will. Nor by uncercain and accidencal interen
ces such as chis. T he memory os praises, dispraises, remardi. punist-
meurs, sood and evil sequels de matee us (heMould lay dispose
15) toclcet vbat me clect; bur the memory of these ilings is from
ehse sense, andthe sense fromthe operation of the external ob, ects,
and the Acency of external objects is onely from Cod, therefore alt
actions, even of free and voluntary Acents, are necessary. (C) 20
PaIsby allthe ocher preac imperfections, which are co be found
inehis Sorice. Iris just like chac old Sophistical piece: Hlechae
drints well Aceps weI, he ehac Aecps WelI chinks nO huTE
tic chac chints no hurelires well, cheretore hethac drines weil
lires Wvell.
(d) In che very sast passase oEmodiscourse, I propoled
mine onn prirare opinion, hon ic mighe be made appear, chgc
ehe Fcerral Prescience and Decrees of Crod are consistent mich
erve liberer and continseney. And chis Psec domn, in a5 plain
cermsas Pcould, or a5 so profound a speculacion wonld permit,
etrich is almost wholly misundersood by T. FI. and many ot
my words vrestedeo a urons sense. A5 FirH, Where I speak OF
ehie aspect ofCod, chat is his rien, hishnomledee, by itich
che most free and contingene actions vere manitestro him
Frometernier, Heb. 4. TI. AII thines are naeed and opento his
eres, andchis noc discursivels, buc incuicively, noc by external
species. bue by his internal Flence; Hle confounds chis wich
theWil, and che Decrees oFCod: Though he Found nocche
mord Aspect betore in ehis discourse, he mishehare Found
prescience. (e) Secondly, he charsech me chac hither tol
hare maintained, chac Liberry and the Decreesof God, are irre-
cilable. TF Y have Peid any such chins, my HCATEREVeY WENE
alons wich my pen. No, buc his reason why he chargechme
onchis manver, is because P hare maincained, thac Liberry and
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