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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 263, page id 1030877386:0263
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(263)
alledeed it for areason nhy I sould net be ofhis, but nom in his
Peply, he saith that his opinion is a cruch demonstrable in rea-
son, receired and Deliered by all che WVorId. And cheretore
choush he benoc able cocomprehend or exprese exactiy the
certain manner, hom this Libercy ot WVil consists mich Gods
eternal Prescience, and Decrees, per he ouchero adhereto
ehac cruch, wtrich is manitest. Bur why Bouldhe adhere toit,
intesse it be manifest t himsetf? Andis it be manisest to him-
self, hy docshe deny ebat he is able ro comprehend it? Andif he
b. net ab le toc. m.prehend it, hor lnoms he that it is domonstrable?
Or ly Cayshe thut (o conflently, rohich he does not kr:oi? Me
thntes that wbich l havesaid, (namely, chac thar which Cod
Foretinons Bali behereatrer, cannoc bur behereatrer, and ac
thie Pame tirie chac he Forehnem ic Mould Be. Buc chac whick
cannor buc be, is necellary. Theretore wtrac God Foreknows
Mail be necessarils, and ac che time Foreknown.) This Ysay
looheth somemhat liker to a demonstrarion thanany et ine that he
hath hithoctobroncht to prove Free wil. Another reason, wby I
Bould beof his opinion, is that he is in polsestion ofan old cructi
derired eo hum by interirance ox succestion trom his Ance.
ROrS. Tombich Tansiver. first, that Lam in possession of a truch
derived ro me from the liche ofreason. Seconaly, that mhereas he
bnomethnot, whether it be therruth that he possesseth or not, be-
cause he consesserh helenons noc hou it can consist miti Cods Pres.
cience and Decrees, Lhave sufficient ly Bevn that my opinion of ne-
cessity not onelys arrees mith, bnt necessirily follometh fromthe
eternal Prescience and Decrees ofCod. Besides it is an unhan-
some thine for a man to derive his opinion concernine truth by suc-
cession frombis Ancestors; Por our Ancestors, thefirst Christians
derived not therefore their truth from the Gentils becanse they
mere tleir Ancestors.
(C) TT0 Passe by all che ocher great imperfections, whict
are eo befound in chis Sorire, it is just like chac old Sophistical
piece: he chac drinks well Accps well; he chac (lccps WWeII
chinks nohure; hechac chinks no hure lives Well; cheretore
hethac drinks well, lives vell. Mly areument masthus, Electi-
on is alares trom the Memory of sood and evil sequels; Me-
mory is alray trom che sense; and sense alvares tromche
Act