The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 78
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- rithstanaine Crod had placed in the Carden a means tokeephim
- perpernalius from dyins incase he should accommodate his Wr ill to
- obedience of Gods commandement concernine therree of lnonlede
- of eood and erit, get RCam as ot so much master of lis onn
- Will astodo it. Wberehy is signified that a mortal man choneh
- invited by the promise of immortality cannot covern his omn
- Will, thoneh his Will covern his Actions, mhich dependance of
- the Actions on the Wr ill, is that which properly anderuly is called
- Liberey. And the libemy be (aid of the mords to Fve, utry
- hast choudonechisd andos those to Cain, Why arethou weoche
- exc. andto Tsraet. Wtry wiil ye dye O house ofltrael? but
- ehe Bistrophere will saydc, senifiech not dyc, but live eter.
- nalu in torments. For by such interprecations any man may
- ansmer any thine. and irbereas he asteth, Doch God repre
- hend him for doinz hacWhichhe hach ancecedently decer-
- mined him Chae te MuK do: J ansiver, no; but he convin-
- ceth and instructethbim, that thouch immortalicy vas se easie
- toobrain, as it mighe be had for che abstinence fromthe fruit of
- one onely trec; ret hecould not obrain it but by pardon, and by
- the sacrafice of Zefus Christ; nor is there here any panistment,
- but oncly a reducine of Adam and L. ve totheir oricinal morta-
- lity, vhere dearb mas no punistment but a eist of God. In
- hich mortality helived neer a thonsand rears, and had a nume-
- rous issue, and iived nithout misery, and Tbelceve sall at the
- Resurrection obiain the immortalit which thenhe lost. Nor in
- al this, isthere anr ploetine secrerty, or any moctery or derise-
- on, Whichehe Distrop moc. ld makemen beleevethereis And
- Whereas hesaith, that chey who calkhere oF a ewotold Will
- ot60d, Secrec and rerealed, and che one oppolicero che o-
- cher, understand noc Whacthey (ay. The Prorestant Doct-
- torsbochof our, and other Churches, did use to distinguist be-
- tmeenthesecret and revealed WillofGod; the former theycal-
- led voluneas bene plecici, Whicb scenisteth absolurlys bis will
- theother voluncas signi, ehat is, the scenification of his will.
- inthe same sense that L calltheone his ill, the other his Com-
- mandemene, mhich may sometimes differ. For Gods Com-
- mandemeue to Abrahatm mas, that he Boula sacrafice CaaCk,
- bat his Wil nas, thar he Bontd not doit. Gods demunciation
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 78. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0090?run=74