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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 332, page id 1030877386:0332
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(332)
arsumentum ducens ad impossibile, is a cood formof reason
ine; matine no difference, berveen absurdicies mhich are impessi-
bilities, and inconveniences, Whichare not onely possible but tre-
quent. Andrhonch ir be a qood form of reasonine to argue from
absurdities. Vet it es no geod formof reasonine, to areve from in-
conveniences; for inconvenience may stand well enouch with
erutB.
(6) (Buc let us viem his ArsumenE; I aman have Liberty
from necessitation, he may frustrate the Decrees of Cod, and malee
his Praescience talse. Thisis his Decree, chac manthould bea
Frec Asent. IFhe did consider C0d a5 a most simple Act wich
oue priority or posteriorier ofcime, or any composicion, he
vouldnoc conceire ofhiis Decrees, as lons lince enacted, bur
25 Coexistent wich our selves.) Flere açain, he monld have me
conceive eterniey eo be Nunc Rans, thar is an instanc ofrime, ana
that instant of rime tobe God, Wvhich neicher he nor Jean conceive
nor can mithont impieey say, as he dothhere, that the Decrees of
Codare God; In nhich con (isteth all the rest ofhis Ansver eorhis
Number. savins chat he putreth in sometimes, thac ehe fore
tnomledee of Ciod producechnor necessier, hich is granced
him; but thar any thins can beforetnoion, which sall not necessa-
rilus come topasse, which Was nos granted, te proveth no orhermise
then by his assertion, chac erery instane ofcime is Cod; mhich is
denred him.
P. H.
Fis is all thac hath come ino my mina touchine this question
since Ilast considered it. And P humbly beseech jour Lora-
Bipeo communicate it onely ro. J. D. And so pragine C0a 10 pro-
Sper Vour Lorastip in all jour desiens. Ltate leave, ardam my most
Noble and oblieins Lord.
Lour most hmble deronne
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ears in chis Section, and in che 14. and 15. Sections, IFhis
ansIVet
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