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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 108

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  1. (108
  2. Bould pcison the manthat enterhit. batthat Wrheat sontd nom
  3. risbhim hewilleth operarively. Whieh is very absurd; or else
  4. hemust consess that the venimons effects of wichedmen, are mil
  5. led operacirelv.
  6. dWVheretore T. FI. is misheily mistaten, co makie ehe
  7. particular and decerminare act oF Killins 2 riah eo be Frori
  8. God. The general poverto actis fromCod, buc chesper
  9. citicacion oEchis general and sood pover, eo mureher, Or
  10. eo any parcicular eril, isnoctrom Cod, buc tromthetree
  11. Wwill oFman.
  12. But nhy am Tsomichtily mistatent did not Coa foretnom
  13. that Uriani in particular. Sould be murthered by Darid in par-
  14. ticular, and rhat Cod forelnomethBallcome to pass, can that
  15. possibly noc cometo passe and that mhich cannot possibly not
  16. cometo pass, doth noc that necessarily come ropass? and is not
  17. al necessitu from C0d? Tcannot sce this creat mistate. The
  18. Seneral porer (saithhe) eo act is trom Cod, buc chespe-
  19. cificarioneo do chis act uxon cyriah, is noc trom 60d, Due
  20. trom Frec. WilI. Very learnealy. As if there vere a pover,
  21. that vere notthe porver ro de some particular ait; or a porver to
  22. hill, and et to hill no body in particular. Tf the porver be to
  23. bill, it is 10 bill that mhich sail be by that perver killcd, he-
  24. eber it bellriatior any orher; and the sivine of that porver is
  25. the application of it to the act; nor doth porver sienitie any thine
  26. sctnallu, but those motiens and present acts from which the act
  27. that is noc nom, but Bal be hercafter, necessarily proceedeth.
  28. And therefore this Arerment is much lite that; which nsed
  29. hcretofore tobe bronehe for the desence of the divine Richt of the
  30. Bistopstothe Ordinationos Ministers. They derive not (say
  31. they) the Riche of Ordination from tho civill Soveraion, bul
  32. from Christ immediarely. And pet they actnomledee that it is
  33. nnlam ful forthem to Ordain, if thecivil poiver do forbid them.
  34. But hom have they richt toOrdain when they cannot de it lam-
  35. fully: their ansmer is they have the Richt, thouchthey may not
  36. exerciseit; as isthe Richtto Ordain, andtbe Richt to Fxer-
  37. eise Ordinarion mere nottlie samethine. And as they ansver
  38. concerninque Righe, mhichis Lecal Porver, so the Bimop ansmer-
  39. eth concernine Natural P’over, that David had a several per
  40. WEr

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 108. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0120?run=74