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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 339, page id 1030877386:0339
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(339
Such as hatreadocher men, but not chemselves. For by readine
otbers, men commoniy obstruet the way cotheir on exact and n
cural qudeement, anduse cheir vit bochro deccrve then: (lves wi h
Fallaces, C 1o require rhose Who en deavour (ut their omn intreaty)
eo instruct them, wich revilines.
b, TIFve Be in an errour, ie is such an errour as is sucked
Froiri nacure; as is confirmed by Reason, by Lxperience and
Bi Scripeure; asibe Fachers and Doctors ofche Church ot aII
oes hare delivered; an errour iterein we have che cOncUr-
rence oF aII che Delt Philosophers, an erroue cliac bringecl Co
Crod che Clory of Justice, _cc. CMac rendees men more devout,
tricre pious, more bumble, more inductrious, more penicent
For cheir (InS. )  H this is b. + said; and wohat hererofore batis
been offered in proof for it, hath been sufficient lyr fuced, and the
contrary proved; namely, that it in an errour contrary +. t’e na-
ture of tne Will; repuenant ro reason and experience; repuenant
to the Scripture; repugnant rothe Doctrine of St Paul, andris
pirry that the Fathers and D: Etors of ihe Church haven e folloive d
SF. PauI therein; an errour noc maintained by the best Phi oso-
phers, (for thcy are nor the B. st Ph losophers, Which the BihOp
thinteth (0) an errour that caecii from Godthe Clery of his Prae-
Science; nor brinceth rohim the elouy of his other Atribures; an
errour chacmat thmen, by imacininq iner can repent when thex
wiis, neclect cheir duries; an  thar malern men unthan fal for Ciods
graces, by chintins them eo procced fromthe natural abiliry of
their oron will.
(5) B. IC Prich he, mhon They dispure os Ciods Actions Dhilo; op i-
ealr, then they consider them arain, as is heh.d suchfaculires,
and in such manner as vetasethem. Andischis che cause OF
Our CrrOUr ? Thoc vere sranse indeed; For chey who dispure
Phiiosophically orCod, do neicher ascribe Faculcies eo him, in
ehiac manner cliac ve liare chem, Noc; er do cher accribuce any
proper Faculcies ac aIl coGod. Gods understanding and His
Willis his very essence, _c. Me rlintes he should have knomn
at these gears thate dispue: Philosophica. ly is 10 dispute by natu-
rallrealon, and fr. n principles evident bythe lieht of nature, and
eo dispure o; ihe faculries and proprieries of the sub ect mhereofthy
ereas. Ssis cherejore anstilfully sa dby hin that tl. ey mbo dispuce
eti