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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 264, page id 1030877386:0264
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(264)
Action oF external bodus; and all ActionFrom God; there.
fore all Actions eren ofFree and Voluncary Acentsare trom
God, and consequentiy necessary. Let the Bistrop compare nom
his scurrilons Arcumentarion rith chis of mine, and tell me, he-
ther hethar peeps Well. doth all his liferime chine no hurt.
(d) (In cheveer lat Pallase ot my discourse, I provosed my
omn prirace opinion, hon ic mishebemade appear, chacche
eternal Prescience and Decrees of Godare consitter E WWich FrUE
liberer and concinseney, _cc. ) IF he had meant by Liberty. as
other men do the Liberry of Action, that is, of thines whichare in
his porver, to doc which he ill, it had been an casse matter to recon
eile it With the Prescience and Deerces ofG0d; But meanine the
Liberry of il, it mas impossible. So litemise is by contiency
he tad meant simply commins co passe, it had been reconcilable
Withthe Deerees of God; bui meanine commins eo passe wich
out necestiey, i: Was impossible. Snd therefore, thoughit betrue
hesars, thar he sec ic donn in as plain cerms astre could, yet it
mas impossible to set it donn in plain terms. Nor foneht he to
et arce me nmich misunderstandins tim; and vrestins his worde
o aWrons sense. For thc truchis, Idid not understana th. m ac
alt, nor thonche he understoodthem himsels; but mas milline e
sive them the best imterer tation ther monidbear; which he calls
mrestine them to a vrons sense. And first, Lunderstood not mhat
hemeant bythe aspect of Cod. For is he had meant his foreknom-
ledee. (rhich mord he had otren used before) Wbat necded he in
ihis one place onely to call it Aspect: Or wohat need hebere call it
his Vieir? Or saythat all thinesare open to ihe eyes of S0d, not
discursirelu but ivenicively; mhich is to eaponnd Lyes in that
Teaet Flebr. 4. TT. not fieuratively but litterally, neverthelesse
excludine external Species, Which the Schocl. men say are the
cause of secins. Bur it vat veil done to exclude such insienifi-
cant spceches, upon every occasion wbat oever.nd thongh L de
noc holdtise foretenomledee of God 1o consist in Dilcourle, vet L sall
benever arivente say it is by Turuicion, as lone as Yhnow that
even a manhath forebnomledse of all ose thines m’ich he inten-
dethhimself to do, not by discourse but by knoiins his oun purpose,
savine that man hath a superiour porver cver him it. ac can chance
his parpose, hich God hathnot. And rohercas he fays, Lconsound
tht.
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