The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 2
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- ted from this dominion of Gods ill, therill of Man; and
- bronehe in a Doctrine ehat not onely Man. but also his rill is
- Free, and determined rothis or that action, not by ihe Will of
- Cod, nor necessary causes, but bythe pover of the Willit Self.
- and thonch byihe reformed Churches instructed by Lucher,
- Calvin and orhers, this opinion mas cast ont, ret not many rears
- since it becan acain tobe reduced by arminius and his follomers,
- and became the readiest may to Ecclesiastical promotion; and
- bydiscontentine those thatheldthe contrary, vas in some part
- the cause ofthefollorine tronbles; rhich troubles rere theoc-
- casion of my meetins miththe Bistopof Derry at Paris, where
- e dicoursed tocether of the Areument non inhand; front
- which Discourse me carried amay cachof us his omn opinion.
- and for oueht Lremembermithont any offensive mords, as blas-
- Phemous, acheistical or the like, pasfine betweenus; eitherfor
- that the Bisop mas not then in passion, or suppressed hispassion,
- beine theninthe presenceof my Lordof Neweattle.
- But astermards the Bistrop sent to his Tordip his opinion
- concernine the question in vritine, and desired himto persmade
- metosend an ansmer therenntolikenise invritine. There vere
- some reasons for which Pthouehe it mieht beinconvenient to let
- my ansver eoabroad; pet the mans oblications rherein l mas
- oblicedio him, prevailedmith me torrite this ausmer, whicb mas
- ascermards noc onely rmithont mytenomledee, but also açainst
- my vill. publised by one that found means to set a C. opy of il
- Surreptitionsty. And thus non have che Occasionof this C. on-
- troversie.
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- The Scare ofche Duection.
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- Tomards the end of XCumb. 3.) in these vords, Whe-
- ehex a L res, acurat, Ciril, Moral, (For we speak
- nocnom oftheconvertion ot a inner, chat concernes nor
- ehiis question,) bepraedecermined exerinsecally and ineri-
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 2. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0014?run=74