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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 340, page id 1030877386:0340
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(340)
Philosophically of Cod, ascribe uneo him no proper faculires. PFn
proper faculties, LWoula fain keno os him vebat improver faculiies
heasoribes to God. Lenesse hen ill mate the understan tine and the
Will, and hus other Aetributes eobe in G,od improper faculties
becanse he cannos property call themfaculries, that is to say he
Lnors not hou eo mahe il scod ehat they arefaculiies, and yet he
Will have these mords. Cods Underttandins and his W ill are tiis
very Flence, to passe for an xiome of Philolophy: And Wrhere-
as Thad said, we oughe not 10 dispute of Codsnature, and that he is
noEE Subject of oar Philosopt. y, he denzes it not, h.1 Cays L Cay it
(a)(Wich a purpole co make a noile wich declam s asaine
those, who dare dispuce oF che nature ot Crod, chac is, uho dare
sec F irch his sultice; and his soodnels, ecc The B. Bop Will
have much a do to malee cood. char to di puri of ch. n’ture o God.
is al one with sertins forch bisfastice, and his eoean (s. FPer. R.thm
notice of these mords of mine, pions men arcribnte roGod Almighe)
for honon ssake, Whatsoever thcy (ee shonourable in the wortd
and yet this is settine forth Gods Fustice, Ccodness, 6. withont
dispurins of G0s nature.
(e) (In che Rames oFche erue Tophec, char is HelI.) The
true T. ophet mas a place not farfrom the Wallsof Ferusalem, and
consequentlys on the Farch; L cannot imasine ihat he will say to
this in his Ansiverto my Leviathan, is there he find te sume, un-
tesse he say thar in this place by che rrue Tophee, hemeant a not
erne Tophet.
(5) (This is lite exernal (saichour Saviour) coHnomche
onely erue C0d, and Tesus Chrit, _c. ) Tbis mhich follometh 10
the end of bis Ansiver and os the Book. is a reprehension of me, for
Carins thaer crue Relision consittech in obedience eo Christs
LICULEnARES. If it be Causul fer Christians eo institure amon est
themselves a C ommon Wealth, and Magistrates, w’sereby they
maybe able toliv. in peace one with another, and unire themselvos
in defence asainst a forraien enemy, it ill certainly. be necessaru
to make to themselves some supreme Fudge in all controversies 10
nhom theyoucht all to sive obedience, and this is no such strange
Doctrine, nor So unconch a Phrase ro Christianears, as rhe Bistop
males it, nhatsoever it be othem, that monld malee themselves
fudeesof ehe supreme Zuace himsels. No, but (saith he) Cibrist