The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 116
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- streneth of rempration is necessitated rosteal, and is there npon
- pet to deatb. does nocthis punistment deterr others fromthefre
- is it noc acause that others steal not e dothit not frame and
- make thcir vil to instice: T0 make the Lam is therefore t0
- male a cause of fustice, and to necessitare instice, and conse-
- quenely it is no iniustice tomale such a Lam.
- The instieutiox of the Lar is not to erieve the delinguent
- for that whichis passed, and not to beundone, but to mate
- him and others just, that esse monldnot be (0. And respect-
- eth not theevil act past, butthe sood ro come. En somnet
- as mithont this cood intention offuture, no past act of a delin-
- quent conld instifie his tillins inthe sicht of God. But pon vill
- Cay, hou is it just to teill onc manto amend another, is mhat
- iere done vere nece ssary E. Tothis Lansiver, thatmen are just-
- Iytilled, necfor that their actionsare not necessirated, but
- thactherare spared and preserved, because they are not noxi-
- ons; for rmhere thereisno Lam, there nobilline, nor ang
- thins else canbe uniust. And by thericht of. Nature ve de-
- Stroy, withont beine unjust, aul that is noxions both beasts
- and men. And for beasts me till them justly, when me doit
- in order to our onn preservation. And get I. D. consesseth,
- that their actions, as beine oneli spontancons and not free are
- abt necessitared and derermined to that one thine mhich they
- Ball do. For men, rhen me male Societies or Common-
- vealths, e lay donn our riche to hill, excepring in certain
- cases, as murther, thefr, or otber offensive actions; So that
- theriehe Whichthe C ommonmealthhathro put a man to death
- fer crimes, is nat created by the Lam, but remains from the
- first richtof Nature, which every manhathto preserve him.
- self, for ehat the Lam doth not tale chatricht amay, in case
- ofcriminals, whorere by Lam excepted. Men are not there-
- fore put todeath, or panisted for thar their theft proceedeth.
- fromelection, but becanse it masnoxions and contrary to mens
- preservation, and the onnistment conducins to the preserva.
- tion ofthe rest. In as much as copunis those that do volunta-
- tary burt, and none etse, framethand maleth mens wills such.
- as men monldhave them. Andrbus it is plain, that from the ne
- cessitu
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 116. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0128?run=74