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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 15

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  2. are
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  4. Por
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  6. et he
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  8. Cer.
  9. fore.
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  27. from
  28. passe,
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  33. 15
  34. cessary; for the definition of Necellary is that which cannot
  35. possibly be othermise. And hereas they that distingnisti be-
  36. teen Gods Praescience andhis Decree, Saythe. Fore. nomledee
  37. maketh not the Necessity withour the Dcoree; it is liule to the
  38. purpose. Et sufficeth me that mhatsoever mas fore-bnomn by
  39. God, vas necessary; but al thines vere Fore. Lnonn by God; andi
  40. therefore all thines vere necessary. And as for the distinction
  41. of Pore. Knomledse from Decree in Cod Mlmichty, Lcompre-
  42. hendit not. Theyare Acts coeternall, and therefore one.
  43. Andas for the Arcuments dramn fromnatura reason they
  44. are set donnat larce in the end of my discourse tomhich the
  45. Bistop maketh his reply; miich hom meil he hath ansvered sal
  46. appear in due time. For the present, the Actions mhichhe chint-
  47. eth proceed from liberiy of nill, must either be necessitaled, or
  48. proceed from fortune, mithont angothercause; for certainly ta
  49. Nill is Impossible mithont thintine on mhat he milleth. BWE
  50. it is in no mans Flection robat he Ball at ary named time
  51. bercaster thinte on. And this Y take to be enonch to clear the
  52. understandins of the Reader, that he maybe thebetter ablero
  53. Fudee of the Follomine Disputation. L find in those that
  54. rorite of ihis Arrument C especially in the Schoolmen and their
  55. Pollovers) so many mords strancers to our Lanenace, and
  56. Such Consusion and Lnanity in therancine os ihem, as thata
  57. mans mind in the readine os them distineaisheth nothine;
  58. And as thines mere in the becinnine (before the Spirit of
  59. God vas moved upon thc Abiss) Tohu and Bohu, thac
  60. is to say. Confusion and emptiness; se are their dis-
  61. courses.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 15. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0027?run=74