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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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ro (eu what itchiey do noc come, hen a certain prediction mu
Fail. Ie may beurged, thac chere is a difference becween chele
ero cases. In chis case che comins is presene eo ehe W aEch.
man, buc chac which Cod Fore knousis future. Cod knoveo
Whac MaII BC; The WVacch. man onelu knows WBaCis. I an-
siver, ehac chis maties no ditlerence ac all in ehe case, by reason
oF chac dispariey which is becween Gods knomledse and ours.
Aschac comins is present rothe Wacch. man, which is Future 1O
ehem whoare belom: So aI chole chinss, Wtich arC FUITUTC LO
us, are present co C0d, Decause his Infinice and Fcernal knon-
ledse dochreachi ro the fucure beins oFall Agenes and erents.
Thus uch is piainsy acknowled sed by F. FT. NTumB. IL. XLaE
fore.lenom ledee is lnomleige, and enomledee dep. n senthe exi-
stence of thethines tenvn, and not they on it. To conclude, che
Prelcience of Crod doch noc make chinesmore necessary, than
che production ot che chinss chemsetres; Duc il ehe AGenES
ere tree Agenes, che production ofche chines dochnoc make
che erenes ce De nbtolurely necessary, bue onely uxon supposi-
tion chac che causes were s0 derermined. Gods prescience pro-
vech a necellier oE intallibiner, buc noc ot ancecedent extrinse.
CaII decermiracion eo one. It auy evene MouId nOE COMCCO
PalS. God did never screanow chac ic monsd eome eO paIS. FOr
every tnomledse necessarily preluppoleth its object.
Animadversions upon che Ansiver
tO NumB. Z XXVI.
(a) P F Y F conid add he Paith orter Argumens, is lie
 L choushe ic 8ood Logick, _c. Thereis no impedin
mene in Losick, Why a man may noc presse lis adverlary wich
chose absurdicies which Row Fromhis opinion. J FPere hemiss re-
cires my mords, atich are T coud add, iF P choup(IE iE BOOdLO-
sick, cheinconrenience ot dengins necestiey, as chac ic destrors
Boch ehe Decrees, and Prescience BFCiod AImigBIEy. BuF he
males me say Tcould addother Areuments; then inferrs, that
there is n impediment in Logick, hy a manmaynet presse his
adversaris rish ehe absurdiries ehat Ron from his opinion, becanse
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