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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 266, page id 1030877386:0266
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(266)
for he hath said, thac the main impediment which kecps men
trom subscribino co thar way oftiis, is because chey conceire
eternier, eo be an everlastins succestion, and noc one indivis
ble Point. As for the many other mayes rhich he says are pro-
Dosed by Dirines For reconciline che ecernal Prescience and
Decrees oFGod with che Libereo and Contingency ot second
caules, is they mean such Liberty and Contingency as the Bishop
meaneth, ther are proposed in vain; for Truth and Frrour can
n.ver bercconciled. Bur hoverer, (saith he) chousha man
couid comprehend none ot all chese wares vec me mustre-
member, thac a cerrain Pruch oughr nor to berejected, because
We are noc able co understand thereason ofic. For he knoms
Che says che load. stone hach an accractive pover to draw che
Tron eo ic, and vet he knometh noc ho ic cometh co have sucte
aPOIVeE. I enom the load stone hathno such attractive pover;
and ret Lnom eat the lron comethroit, or it tothe Tron; and
cherefore monder not that the Dishop lenomerh not how it comethto
have that porvir. In thenext place he Cayeth Tbrine nochine t0
prove that Eternity is not an indivisible point, but my omninca-
paciru chac T cannoE conceive ic. The rruthis, Pcannot dispute
neiiber for, nor acainst (as he can do) the positions Tunderstand
vot. Nor do J understand what derocation it can berothe Divine
perfection, ro attribure to it Potentialicy, that is lin Enelisti)
Porver, and successive Duration; for such Attributes are often
siven to it inthe Scripture.
(B) THe Saieh moreover, ehac he understands as lurle hom ir
ean beerue which Tsay, that Codis nor Fust, but Justice it sel.
nor Eternal but Eierniry it self. IE seems howsoerer he be versed
in ehis question, thac he hach noc troubled his head over much
wich readins School. Dirines, or MecaphysicianS. They are
unscemly mordi tobe saidof Cod, (I will noc Jay) bla sphemons and
atheistical, whichare the attributes he sives to my opiniens because
Tdo n. s thinte them spoken ont of an evil mind, but out of Frrour.
they are T Cay un cem ly mords to be said of 60d, that he is not just.
tat heis rot Fternal, and (as he also Caid; that he is nor Wise,
and cannot be exensed by arr follori s BuC, especiall, Wohenthe
Bucis follomed by ehat mbichisn+ to be unuerstood. C’un any man
understand lon Fusticeis just, or Wisdone Wise: and mhereas
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