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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 152

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  1. 152
  2. Pell the canses ofjoy. Sothat thenecessity of the actionstaketls
  3. avay neither of those partsof repentance, frief for the errour
  4. norjoy for thereturnine. And for Prayer, mhereas he saith
  5. thatibe necessiey ofthines destroyes prayer, Ldeny it. For thouch
  6. prayer benone of the causes that moove Gods Will, his Will be-
  7. ins unchanseable, yet since ve find in Gods Word, he will not
  8. sive his blessines but to those that aste them, the motive topray-
  9. er isthe same. Prayer is the siftof God, nolessthan the bles.
  10. fines. And the prayeris decreed rogether in the same decrec
  11. mbercinthe blessine is decreed. Fismanifest, that chantesgir-
  12. inc is no cause of the blessine past: and that which is past is
  13. sure, andnecessary. Tet even amonest men, thants is in use
  14. as an actenomledeimentof the benefit past, thouch me sould ex-
  15. pect no nem benefit for our cratitude. And prayer to God Al.
  16. michey is but chanlessivine for his blessines in general; and
  17. thonch it precede the particular thins me aste, vet it is not a
  18. canse or means of it, but a sienification that me expect nothine
  19. but from Cod, in Cuch manner ashe, not as me will. And oux
  20. Saviour by mordof monthbidsus pray. Thy will, not our will
  21. bedonc, and by example teaches us thesame, for he prayedthus,
  22. Factier, iF ic bechy will, lec chis cup DalS, _C. The end of
  23. prayer, as of chantessivine, is not to more, but tohonour G0d
  24. Almiehey, in actenomledsins that hat me aste can be effected
  25. byhimonely.
  26. a
  27. Hlope. Ilo Wi Depersvaded in rime, thac ic is noc
  28. the Coreroulnels, or Ambicion, or Senluailier, or Sloch.
  29. or Prejudice oF his Readers which renders chis doctrine of
  30. absolurenecessiey danserous, buc choc ic is inies onn nature
  31. destructirero erue eodliness; a And choust liis ansiver
  32. consist more oF opposicions chan ofsolurions, vec lwill noe
  33. willinely leare onc grain ot his marterunveished. b First
  34. he erres in makivs inmard piery co consilt meerly in thec-
  35. Rimation oFche judsement. TEchis vere (0, Whachinders
  36. buechacche Derils Monld haveas much inward piecy asthe
  37. Bect Christians, Forches elteem Gods poverro be intinite.
  38. and

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 152. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0164?run=74