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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 3

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  7. om
  8. a.
  9. sion,
  10. vade
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  13. vas
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  24. por can be ocherrile, alcer any ocher manner, orin any o-
  25. cherplace, time, number, Beature, order, nOrto any o-
  26. cher end chanchey are. And allchis in respect ofche su
  27. pream cause, or a concourse ot extrinsecall causes, decer-
  28. minins chem eoone.
  29. rrhich thonch dranon up to his advantace, ithas mnchcau-
  30. tion as he mould do a Lease, vet l exceprine that whichis not
  31. intellicible) Tam content to admit. Not intellicibleis, First.
  32. that ehe conrertion of a sinner concerns nocthe Quection.
  33. TFhemean, thatthe conversion ol a snner is fromnecessity, and
  34. praedetermined, thenheis, for somuch asthe Question concerns
  35. Relicion, of the same mindthat L am, and what he can mean
  36. else by that exception Lcannot enesse. Secondly, these mords
  37. Wichoue cheir omnconcurrence, are insenificant, unte(s he
  38. mean that the events themselves Bould concurretotheir pro-
  39. duction: as that fire doth not necessarily burn mithout the concur-
  40. rence of burnine, as the mords properly import: or at least mith
  41. ont concurrence of the fuell. Those tmoclanses leftont, Tagree
  42. mithhim in che state ofthe Question as it is pur universally. But
  43. inhenthe 9uestion is put of the necessitrof any particular event,
  44. asofthe Will Eo vrice, or ihe likee, then it is thestatine of that
  45. particular Onestion: but il is decide d inthe decision ofibe 9)ne-
  46. stion universall.
  47. Ile statesthe same Guestion acaine in another placethus
  48. This is ehe rery Ouection where che warer sicto becween
  49. us, Whecherchere besuch a Pibercy Frec trom necessicarion
  50. and exerinsecall decermination cDOnC, OP nOL. And I al-
  51. lom it also for vell stated so.
  52. Aeainhesares, In a word, (0 great difference thereis be-
  53. creen Natural and Moral etficacy; as there is becmeen his
  54. opinion and mine in ehis uection. So thatthe state of the
  55. Onestion is reduced torhis, Whecher chere be a Moralet.
  56. cacy whichisnocNacural. Jsay there isnot, bc sares ibere
  57. is.
  58. Aeain he rrites thus, Andcheretore as ic Were ridiculous
  59. to Cay, chacthe object ot sipheisthe cause oFsceins; (0
  60. ieis to lay, chac the proposins of the object by thellnder-
  61. Candins cothe Will, isthecause oFWillins. Here also rbe
  62. Duestion

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 3. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0015?run=74