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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 147

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  30. is no man livine that seeth all the consequences oy an action
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  38. disaereeth mith his omn reason denie it, is the infaltible rule
  39. of Moral coedness. Fhe reason Whereof is this, Lbat becanse nei-
  40. ther mine northe Bistops reason, is richt Reason, fit 1obe a
  41. ruleos our Moral actions, e have therefore set up over our
  42. selves a Soveraien Governour, and acreed chat his Lares
  43. Ballbe antons, whatsoever they be, in the phace of Riebt
  44. reason, to dictare rons what is really co0d; in the Came man-
  45. ner asmen in plagine turn ap Trump, and as in plagine their
  46. came their Morality consisteth in not renonncine, so in our
  47. civil conversation, our Morality is al conteined in not dis-
  48. oberins ofihe Larres.
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  51. him nhen he is cold, and he sayes it is e00d fire, but does not
  52. praise it Morally. He praiseth (be sayes) first the C rea-
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  58. efhis manners. And in praisine Morally him that provi-
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  60. hevere not Morally e00d tbat did provide it.
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 147. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0159?run=74