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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(5) TFaIIchis will noc setistie bim. T will sire one othis oun
hind oF proots; chac is an instance. That hich necesicates all
chines accordins c0 T. FI. is the decrec ofGod, or that or-
der itrich is sec co allthines by che erernal cause (Nr mb. TI.)
Non Ciodhimsele, who made chis necellicacins decrec, Was
noc subjectedco ic in the matiins chereot, neieher was chere any
Former order to oblise che Arst cause necectarils eo mate such
a decrec; cheretore chis decree beins an aet ad exrra na: treely
made b. Ciod withour any necessicarion. Yec nerere el: (5, chis
disjunctire propolicion is necessarily erue. Fither God did make
sucha decrec, or he did net make such a decrce. Again, chou, n
2. FI. his opinion vere erue chac all evenes are necessary; and
chac the whole Christian woridare deccired, wto beliere chae
Tome erenssare Frectrom necessier. vec lie willnoc deny, Due
ific had been chego0d pleature ofCod, he mishe hare made
lome causes tree trom necessier, Peeins thac ic neicher argues any
imperfection, nor implies any concradiction. Supposirs chere-
Forechac Cod had made some second caules tree trom any such
ancecedent decerminat on to one, ser che former disjunctun
Would be necestarily erue. Kicher chis Frec underermined caule
ill act ascer chis manner, or ic ill noc aet afcer eliis manner.
Wheretore chenecellarr cruch oFiuch a disjunctire proposiri
on doch noc prore. chac cicher of chemembers ofrhe dis-
junction Ansly considered, is decerminately true in present,
buc onely chac the one ofchem nill De decerminarely erueco
MOTTOH.
Animadrersions upon che Ansiver
to NumB. XXXIV.
(a) CF Y IS Former proOF; chac aII suHicienE CaUSeS, arene-
a  celtary causes, is antvvered betore Numb. 3T.)
erhenhe Ball have read my Animadversions upon that Ansmer of
his he Will thi le ocherrmise hassoever he will confese.
(b) Cand his cro instances ot castins Ambs-ace, and ot
rainins comorrom, are altosecher im pertinene eo che quettion,
Fortmo reasons. Ais, rst reason is, becaule (hesuith) our pre-
senE
b