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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 174

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  1. 274
  2. eannot imaeine when livine creatures of all sorts are often on
  3. torments, as wellas men, ihat C,0d can be displeased mithit
  4. Withont rhose vill they neither arenor couldbe t all cormen-
  5. red Nor pet is he delichted mith it; bus health. Sicbness,
  6. ease, torments, life and deathare mithont ai passion in him
  7. dispenced by him, and he putieth an end eo thene then nhen
  8. they end, anda becinninqe hen theybegin, accordine to his
  9. eternal porpose, Which cannot be resisted. That the necesst.
  10. cy arenerh a delieht of God inthe torments of bis creatures.
  11. is even as trueas rhat it mas pitey and commiseration in the
  12. doces, that made them lickthe fores of La2aTUS. Or h.w doth
  13. theopinion of nec siey destroy che fustice ot Cod, or matie
  14. nim eo pun Ch. ehe creacures For chac wtich vas his omn act d
  15. IF al asstictions be punistiments, for rhose act are allother
  16. Creatures punisted rhich cannot fin ? Woy may not God
  17. mahe the affiction both of those menihat he hath elected, and
  18. alsoofthose mhom he hath reprobated, the nece (ary canses of
  19. the conversion of those be hath elected; their oun afictions
  20. servins therein as chastisements, and the assictions of ibe rest,
  21. as examples? But he may perhaps thinte it no injustice +o pu–
  22. vistrthe creatures that cannot sin, vith temporary punist.
  23. ments, when neverthele (sit vonld be injustice totorment the
  24. Jame creatures éternally. This maybe somerbat to Mect-
  25. ness and Cruelcy, but nochine at al 1o fustice and Enjustice:
  26. For in punistine the innocent rhe injustice is equat, thonch
  27. ehe punistments be unequal. And vhat crueltycan be crea-
  28. ner than that mhich may be inferred from this opinion of the
  29. Bistrop, that. God doth torment eternally, and miththe cxtreg
  30. mest deeree oftorment, al those men rbichhave sinned, that
  31. is to say, au maneind fromthe creation torhe end ot the morid.
  32. rhichhave not believed in Zesus Christ, mherenf verys fer in
  33. respect of the multiende of oihers have somuch as heard of his
  34. vame, andthis, wben Faih in Christ isthe sift of God him-
  35. selt, andrbehearts of alt men in his hands to frame tbem t0
  36. the belief of mhatsoerer he mill have them to belieocs
  37. bath no reason ther fore for his part to tax any opinion, for
  38. He
  39. ascribine to Goacither oruelty or iniustice. Or bon doth it
  40. destroy che Porer ot Ciod, or matie him eo be the Auctior

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 174. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0174?run=74