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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 267, page id 1030877386:0267
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(267)
fustice is an Accident, one of the Moral verrues, and Wis dome
anotber, hom 60d is an Accident or aloral vertue? Tis more
then che School. men or Metaphysicians can understand; nhose
vorirines have trouble d my head mere then thoy Bould have done,
is Thad tnoron that amon est somans senselesse disput s, there bat
been so fero lucide internable. Bat Lhave considered since, mhere
men will underrake to reason onc of natural Philosophy, of the T
comprehensible Wature of Cod, thar it is impossible chey sould
speae incellisibly, or in other Languaze then Mecaphysique;
herein; hey may contradict themselves. andnt perceave it; as
he does here, henhesays, the Accribures ot Godarenoc di-
verse Vercues or Qualicies in him, as they are in the Creatures,
buc reallo one and che same wich ehe Dirine Fslence, and
amonst chemselres, and accribured to C0d eo supply the de-
fect oF our capaciey. Artributes are names andtherefore it is a
contradiction, r0 Cay they are really one andthe same rith the
Divine Fssence. But if he mean the Vernes sienifre d by the At.
tributes, as Justice. Wisedome, Fternity. Divini: y. c. S0
also they are Ver. nes, and not one errue, (Which is still a contra-
diction,) and me sive those Aetributes to Cod, not to sheW that me
apprehend hou they are in him, but to sienifie hon me thinte it best
tohonour him.
(1) CInThenext place he mill help me ro understand (he says)
hor Eterniey is an indivisible point. The Dirine substance is in-
dirisible; Buc Fcerniey is che Dirine substance. TheMajor
is eridene, because Cod is actus simplicissimus; The MinOE
hach been clearly demonstrared in my ansiver eo his las
doube; and is contessed by all men, chac wtracloever is acrri-
tured to Codis Cod.) The Major is (o far frombeine evident,
chat actus simplicissimus signiheth nothins. The Minor, is said
by some men, thonche by no man; for rhat soever is thoucht, il
anderstood; And al that he hath el se vohere and here dilare d upon
it, is as perfect non sense, as any man ever vrit on purpose to
mahe merry mith. And sois that vobereby he ansvers tomy ob-
jection that a point cannot comprehend al time, rhich is successive;
Namely, his distinction. Thac a poine doch noc comprehend,
all Time formally, 25 Time is succestire; buc eminently and Vir-
uallus, as Fcerniey is intinice. Andthis, To day all Erernicy