The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 159

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3. morrom, as that it may net be chanred by some externat aBc
4. dent ox etber, as there salt aperis more or less advancaze
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7. certain time, if he sec ihat the deceinine of the money for a
8. sittle loncer may anvantare himself; and , cethno oiber disad-
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10. his vill chaneed by the aavantare, and therefore bad not de-
11. termined his Willhimselt: but wher he foresceth discredit or
12. perhaps imprisonment, iben his er ill remaineth the same, and
13. is determine d by the thonches he hathof his Creditor, whois
14. therefore an external cause ofthe determination ofthe debtors
15. rrill. Ehis is so evident to allmen livine, thouch theynever
16. studied Schocl. Divinity, that it mill be verystrance is he
17. dram from it the creat impiety he pretends to do. Acain my
18. opinion is onty this, that wbat soever Cod foretnomes pall come
19. 10pass, it cannot possibly bethat that sall not come to pass.
20. Dut thac rhich cannot possibly not come topass, that is said
21. by alt men tocone ropassnecessarily: therefore all events that
22. Cod Foretnomes Balcome to pass, Ball come to pass necessari-
23. ly. If therefore rhe Bistrop dram Impiery fromthis, he fal-
24. lethinto the Impiety of dengins Gods Prescience. L et us sec
25. nom hor hereasoneth.
26. bFirst, heerres inmaltins inward Diecy eo consit meer-
27. ly in che estimacion ot chejudgement. TEchis vere (o, WhaE
28. hinders buc rhac ehe Derils Pould have as muchinmard Piecy
29. aschebest Christians, For chey clcem Cods porvertobein-
30. tinice, and cremble.
31. Tsaid chatimothines concurr dto Dicey; one, to esteem his
32. porver as bichly asis possible. The other, that we sienisie
33. thac estimation by our vords and actions, that is to say,
34. that e morssip him; This later part of Piety he lea-
35. veth ont; and then it is much more easie to conclnde as he
36. doth, that the Devils may have inmard Piety. But neithe;
37. (e doththe Conclusion follon; For Goodnessis one of 6ods
38. Povers, (namely that Porver by whichne morkethinmen, the
39. Hope they have inhim) and is relative; and therefore nn-

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