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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 89

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  2. nad
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  4. eth M
  5. se sant.
  6. folloxi
  7. 1n, for
  8. le ausm
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  19. de HamE a
  20. and tearM
  21. Alit
  22. ore thus
  23. Thac
  24. not aet.a
  25. comia
  26. Utos.
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  28. 6M
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  36. cannot sin. Je was Gods mill et Bonld beso. Porver irre-
  37. sisteble iastifieth all actions really and properly in mhom scever
  38. it befound. Lssporver dcesnoi. And because such porver is ist
  39. Godonty, he must necds be just in alt his actions. And me,
  40. that not comprehendine his Connsails, call him to the Bac
  41. commit injustice init.
  42. Lamnoc ienorant of the usval reply tothis ansiver by di-
  43. stingnistine bermeen rill and Permission. A5, that C 0d. Al-
  44. michry does indeed permit (in sometimes. And that he also
  45. foretnomeththat tbe sin he permitteth sall be committed, but
  46. dees not rill it, nor necessirate it. Lhnom also they distin-
  47. enist the action from the sin of the action; sayins, God Al.
  48. miehey dees indeca cause the action, inhatsoever actionit be
  49. but not the sinfulnessor irregularity os it, that is, the discor-
  50. dancebermeen the Action andthe Lam. Sueh distinctions as
  51. these daxet my understandine. T find no differense betroeen
  52. the nill tobave a thins done, and the permission to do it, mhen
  53. he that permittethit canhinder it, and hnomes it will be donc
  54. untessbehinder it. Nor fnd Jany difference betmeen an acti-
  55. on thatis acainst the LaW, andthe sin of that action. As
  56. for example, betmeen thekilling of Uriatu, and ihe (in af Da-
  57. vid in killine Vriah. Nor mhenoneis cause both ofthe action
  58. and ofthe Lare, ho another can because of the disacree-
  59. meni betmeenthem; no more than hou one man maline a lon-
  60. per and Borrer carment, another can male ihc inequality
  61. that is betmeen them. This Phnom. God cannot sin, becanse
  62. bis doine a thine males it inst, and consequently nostn. And
  63. becansemhatsoever can sin, is subject 1o anochers Law, which
  64. Codisnot. Andtherefore tis blasphemy to say. God can sin.
  65. Batrosay, that Godean (oorder the morid as a sin may be ne-
  66. cessarilys cansed rhereby in aman, I do noi sec hom it is any
  67. distonour eo him. Howsoever, if such or otber distinctions
  68. can mate it slear thar Sc. Paul did not think F. Paus or PharaOhS
  69. actions proceeded fromthe will and purpose of God, or that pro-
  70. ceedins from bis will could not therefore mirhont injustice be
  71. blamedor punisted, I will as soon as Tunderstand themturn
  72. untoY. DSopinion. For L nov hold nothine in all this ue-
  73. stion betrveenus, but what seemethtome net obsourely; but
  74. most

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 89. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0101?run=74