The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 136
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- Thereason hy he chinheth chis ax error. is because the po-
- sitive LaW ofCod conteined inthe Bible is a L aW mithont our
- assent; the Lam of Nature mas rritten in ourhearts bys the
- fineer of Cod mithont our assent; the Larres of C’onguerours
- nho come in by the pover of the Smord mere made mithour our
- assent; and so vere the Lavesofour ancestors mbich mere
- made before me vere born. It is astrange thine that be that
- understands thenon. sense ofrhe Schoolmen, Bouldnot b0 able
- 1o perceave so case a truch asthis Which hedenieih. TbcBi
- bleis a Lam. Z0hom: Z0 allthe Worid: Flelenomesit is
- noc. Flor same it thentobe a Lam tons: Did God (peate
- it viva VOCC tONs ? Flave me then any other trarrant for it
- than therrora of the Prophets e Flave me scen the miracles ?
- Flave ve any orher asurance of their certaint, thanthe autho-
- ricy os the Churche andis che authoriey of the Church any o-
- ther thanthe authorier of ihe Commonmealth, or that of the
- Comminmealth any other than that ofthe FLead of che Common-
- vealth, or haththe Tlead of the (ommon vealth any orber au-
- thority than that wbicb hath been siven him by the Members e
- Flse, Why sould not the Bible be C anonical as well in Con-
- Ctancinoxle as in any other place? They that have the Legis-
- lative povver mate xochine Canon, which thez make vot L an
- nor Lam which they male not Canon. Andbecanse the Le-
- sistative porver is fromthe assent of the sabjects, the Bible is
- made Lam bytheassent ofthe subi. cts. It masnot the Bistop
- of Romethat made the Scripeure Lau mithont his omn tem-
- poral Dominions; nor is ic the Clerey that mate it Lam in
- their Dioceses and Rectories. Nor san it bc a Law of ic self
- vithont specint and supernatural revelation. The Bistrop
- thintes because the B ble is Lam, and bc is appointed to teach
- it to the people inbis Diocese, that therefore it is Lam to mhom
- soever heteachit: wbichis somenhat erosse, but notso erosse
- as to saythat Conquerors mho come in by thoporverof the smord,
- matetheir Laves also mithontour assent. Ile thines belike
- thatis a Conquerour can bill me is he please. J am presently
- oblice d withont more a doc to obey all his Laves. May not I
- rather dye, if L thint fit: The C onquerour males no Lam o-
- ver the C onquered by verrue ot his pover; but by vertue of
- thein
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 136. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0148?run=74