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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 265, page id 1030877386:0265
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(265)
ihis Aspest mith the wil and Decrees os God, be accuseth me
nrons fully. For bomcoula. Lso confoundit, nhen L understood not
nhac it meant. ?
(e) (Secondly, hecharsechme, chae hitherto Thave main-
tained, chEE Liberry and the Decrees of God are irreconcileable;
andthe reasen mhy Ido sois becaule he maincained, chat Liberey.
and cheabsolure necessier ofall chinss, are irreconcileable.
I Liberty cannot stand mith necessiey, it cannet stand rith the
Decrees of God; of mbich Decrees, necessiry is a Consequents
Inceded rot rosay, nor did say, that Necessity and 605 Dcerces
are allone: thonchis Thad said it, it had not been mithont Autho.
rity of learned men, in rhose roritines are often found this sen-
tence, Voluncas Deis ecesticasrerum.
(F) (Buc co cuehis Arsumiene Morr. God hach Decreed aMI
effecto which comeco passe incime, sec noc all atrer ehe lame
manner, bue accordins eo the distinet natures, capacicies and
condicions oflis creatures, Which he doch noc destroy by lije
Decree; Somehe acterh. Flirherto true; then he adderh, wieti
Comehe cooperateth by special insuence, and lome liconely
permitreth. Tec eliis is noidle or bare perraistion.) Thisis
false. For nothins operaterh by its oon original p. Wer, but C,0d
himsels: Man operateth not but by special po ver. (T say speciat
porver not special instuence) derivedfrom Cod. No. is ic by Ciods
permission oncl; as Thave ofrenalr adystom, and as the BiBop
here contradictine his former Words coniesseth; For eo permic one-
l, and baroly eo permie sienifie rhe same thinq; And thac whi ch
hesays thar God concurs by way ot generalinAtuence, i Fargon.
For ex ry concurrence is one sincular and indivi dnal concurrencc;
and norhine in ihe Worid is generat; but che sigrification of mords
and other signs.
s) ETturdly, he charsechme, chac L allom all mentobeof
his opin on save onely those that conceive in their minds alTunc
stans, or hon eterniey is an indivisible point, rather then an ever-
lastins suecession. But Thare siren no such allovance.) Surely if
ihe reason wherefore my opinion is false, proceed fromthis, that L
conceive not erernirus eo be Nunc Cans, but an everlastine successi
on, Jam alloved to hold my opinion cill l can conceive eterniry
othermise; at least he allors men nor rill then to beof his opinion