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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 124

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  1. (724)
  2. First, hecoldus, ehac it was che irresistible pover or Cod
  3. etiac justities all hisactions, choush he command one chins
  4. ovenls, and ploc anocher thins secrecly, chouphhe beche
  5. caule, noconely ot cheaction, buc also ot cheirregularies.
  6. choushheboch sire man poverco act and decermine ehis
  7. povertoerit, a5 wellas g00d; choush hepunimr che Crea.
  8. cures. For deins chac which he himsels did necessicare chem
  9. c0d0. Bucbeins pressed michreason, chacchisis erranni-
  10. cal; Arst, eo necessieare a man eo dohis will, and ihen eo
  11. vunisto him for doins ofic, he leares chis prerence in che
  12. plair held, and Aies toa lecond. Thac therefore a man is
  13. iusly punictred. For chac which hewas necesicared eo do, be-
  14. cause che aet was voluncary on bis part. This haeh more
  15. em ot reason chancheFormer, it he did make che will oF
  16. man eo be inhis omndisposicion buemaineainine, chaerhe
  17. ill is irresistibly decermined eo will vhacsoerer ic doch
  18. will, cheinjustice and ablurdiey ische lame; First, cone-
  19. celsicate a man eo will, and chen eo punistr him for willing.
  20. TheDosoncly bices che stone Which is chromnac him wiet
  21. a Aranse haud, bnc cher makie che Arst cause ropunisti chc
  22. insrumene, For chac Which is hisown proper act. WVhere-
  23. Forenot beins laristied mich chis, he casts ic oft, and Aies eO
  24. tris chird Mite. Men are not punished (Caich he) therefore
  25. becanse their theft procceded from election (chaeis, becaule ie
  26. was willinslo done. For eo Elect and Will. Caich he, are Boch
  27. one; Is nor chiseo blon hor and cold wichchelame breact :)
  28. buc becanse it as noxions and contraru to mens preservation.
  29. Pausfar he Paicherue, chac erery creature by che instinct of
  30. nature sceks eo prelerre it selE; cast water into a dusy
  31. place, and ic concracts it selE into licele globes, thacis, e0
  32. prelerre ic selF. And chose Who are noxious inche eye ot
  33. cheLam, are justly punistred by ehem contiom ehc execuri-
  34. on ofthe Lamis committed; buc the Lau accOnneS nO Per
  35. sons noxious, bue chose nho are noxions by cheir onn
  36. Faule. Te punistrech noca chorntor prickins, because itis
  37. ehie nacure ofchechorn, and ic can do no ocherwile, nor a
  38. Child betore iehare ehe use oF reaton. IF one ould cake
  39. mine hand vertorce, and sire anocter a box on thecar wich.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 124. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0136?run=74