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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 346, page id 1030877386:0346
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(346)
Cods Will, but are milled by bimbus a permistive Will not an
operative Will, and hardeneth che leart. of man by a necative ob.
duration; That mans Will is in his omnper, but his OTUS
primo primi not in hisoin porrer, nor necessary save onely by a
FEyporherical necessityi That the Wrillto chance is not abmayes a
chance of WWil; T har not all thines whichare produced are produced
trom lusticiene but some et ines trom deticiene canses; Thar ifthe
Porver ofehe Will bepresent in actu peimo, then ther is nothine
mancine cothe production of the effect; That a cause may be sust:
si nt for the production of an effect thonch et mant somethine ne:
cessary tothe production thereof, because the Wrill may be mantine:
That a necessary cause dotn not alvayes necessarilys produce its
effect, bat onely then when the effect is necessarily produced. Ie
proveth also, thattherillis frec, by that universal norion mhich
the Worid hachof election; For mhenof the six electors the votes
are divided equally, the Kins of Bohemia hath a castine voyce;
That the Prescience ofG0d supposeth no necessity of the furure exi-
stence ofchechinzs foretnoron. because God is not eternal but eter-
nicy, andeternier is as landins NNou, mithont succession ofrime,
and therefore Cod foresces all thines intuitively by the presentin
allier ther have in Nunc sans, which comprehendeth in it all time
past, present, and to come, not formally but eminent ly and vertu-
ally; That theWrill is free even then rhen ic acteth, but that is in a
componnded, not in a divided sense; That tobemade, and to be
eternal, do consist together becanse Cods Decrees are made and
are ne vertheless eternal; Thatihe order, beaucy, and perfection of
the Worid doth require that in the universe there souldbe Acents
ofallsorrs some necessary. sime free, lome contingent; T hat thouch
it be true that to morron it Ballrair or not rain, ret neirher of
them is erue decerminate; Thar the Doctrine oj necessity is a
blasphemons desperate and destructive doctrine; T hat it Were betrer
tobe an Ath ist chat thentoholdit, es he thar mainrainethit is fit-
ter tobe refurea Wwirh Rodds then ich Arcuments (And nom mhe-
cher this his Doctrine or mine be the more intellieible, more rational
ormore comformable to Cords rrord. Dleaveit toch: Fudement of
ibe Reader.
But nhaso ver be the truth os che di, puted Ducstionthe Reader
may