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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(260)
ese absolute necessiei of all thines are irredonciliable: Thac is
eruc indced. Whacchen: W’y (Paich he) Nccessiry and Cods
Decrees are altone. How all ones chac vere Atrange indeed.
Necesties may be a consequent ot Ciods Decrees, ic cannot be
ehe Decree ic selF. (f) Buc ro cur his argumene MOrE. G0d
hach decreedaII effects Wwhich come to pals in cime, vec noc all
alcer thetame manner, bue accordins co che distinet natures.
capacities and condirions ofhis creacures, Wlich he dochnoc
destroy by his Decree; Sorme he acteth, wich some he coopera
cech by special inAuence, and Pome he onely permirtech. Tet
chisis noidle or bare permistion, sceins he dech concur boch
by way of general inAuence, sivins pomerio act, and also bv
dispolins allerenes necestary Frec, and coneinsent cohiis omn
Slory. (8) Thircly, he charsechme, chac Lallo ail mento
be of his opinion, save onely those that concerve in their minds a
Nunc Hans, or hom eternitr is an indivisible point, rather than an
everlastins succession. Buc P have siren no such allomance.
Ttino, chereare many ocher mayes proposed by Dirines, For
reconcilins che Lcernal Prescience, and Decrees oF Cod, wirti
ehe Liberer and Concinsency of second causes, lome ofntrichi
may please orher judsmenes becrer chanchis ofmine. Hou
soerer, choush a man cousd comprehend none ot all chele
ayes, vec remember whac Lsaid, chac a certain cruch ousbe
nocro berejected, because weare not able, in respect ot our
meahnels, eo understandchecerrainmanner, or reason oFie.
Tknom, ehe L. oad. Hone hach an acrractive pover ro dran che
tron co ic; And vec Lknow noc hon ic comestohare sucha
DOrer.
Buc ehe chiefest difficuler which offers ic selF in this section
15, Whecher Pcernicy be an indirisible poine (a5 I maintain it)
Or aneverlattins succestion, as hemouldhareit. Accordins
eo his constantuse, he siresno ansiver to whar was ursed by
me, buc pleadsasainst ic trom his omn incapacier. I never contd
conccive, saithhe, hon eternity Bouldbe an indivisible point. L
beliere, chac neither e nor any man else can comprehendic (o
cleeriy, as we dothese inseriour chinss. The necrerthac any
chins comes coche essence ot Cod, the more remote ic is Fiom
our apprehention. Bur Mall ne cheretore malie porencialities,
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