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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 151

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The machine reads it as

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  2. lno
  3. ollicitor
  4. ineri
  5. ReCaMM
  6. ad Mall
  7. 2 Or
  8. ced lno
  9. Retmor
  10. Da
  11. Is third Aroument consisteth in other inconvenienees
  12. Arhich he saich will follon, namely impiety and necti
  13. sence of Relisions duties, Repentance, and zeal 10 6ods ser-
  14. vice. Fombich Tansmer, as tothe rest, that theq follom not-
  15. Tmust consess, if me consider the far createst part of mantind.
  16. not asthey Bould be, but as they are, that is, as men Whor
  17. cither the study of acquirine Wcalch, or preferments, or nhom
  18. the apperite of sensnal delichts, or the impatience of medita-
  19. tine, or the rast imbracine of vrone principles, have made
  20. unape to discu(s thetruth of thines, that the dispute of this
  21. question mill rather hurt thanhelp their piety. And therefore,
  22. is be had not descredthis ansiver, Lvould noc have vritten it.
  23. Nor do Trorite il, bne in hope jour Lordship, andhe will Reep
  24. Et private. Nevertheless in verytruth, the necessity ot
  25. events does not of il self dram mith it any impiety at all. For
  26. piety consistethonelu in emorhines; One, that me honour God
  27. in our hearts, hich is, thar me thinte of his porver as hichly
  28. as we can, fortohonour any thine is nothins else bat to think
  29. it to beof creat porver. The orher that me sienifie tbat ho-
  30. nour and est eemby our mords and actions, Which is called cul-
  31. TUS, Or morsip ofGod. Fle therefore that thineeth that all
  32. thines proceed from Gods Eternal Will, and consequent ly
  33. are necessary, docs he not thinke God Omnipotent ? does he not
  34. esteem of his porver ashishly as is possible e nhicb isto honour
  35. Godas much as can be in hisbeart. Arain, he that thinbeth
  36. so, is he not more apt by external acts and mords to actenom-
  37. ledee it, than he that chinleth othermise e T et is this exter-
  38. nat achnomledeement the Came thine hich me call Worstip.
  39. Sothis opinion fortisteth piety in bothlinds externallus and in-
  40. ternalli, andtheretore isfar from destroyins it. And tor
  41. Repentance, hich is nothine bnt a eladrecurnine into the
  42. rieht may, afterthecries of beine ont of the may, though the
  43. canse that made him eo astray vere nece ssary, per there is no
  44. ason Why heshoulanor crieve; and açain, thoneh the canse
  45. hy he returned into the may mere necessary, there remaines

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 151. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0163?run=74