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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 179

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  2. ba
  3. ConA
  4. CurrE
  5. 1t0si
  6. CdIB
  7. et
  8. niba
  9. A
  10. (179)
  11. Chins buctrom him. he hath put a henitication thac Wve ex
  12. pectietrom him. There is much difference bermeen my moras
  13. and his inthe sense andmeanine for inthe one there is bonour
  14. ascribed to Cod, and humilirus in him that praveth: but inthe o-
  15. ther presumption in him that prareth, and a detraction from
  16. the honour of 60d. Wrhen L Cay Prayet is noc a caule nOr a
  17. MEaNCS, Ptale caule and meanes in one and the same sense
  18. affirmine that God is not movedby any thine that me do, but
  19. has almaies one andthe same eternal purpose. 10 do the same
  20. thines ibat from eternitu he hath forelenonn sall be done:
  21. and methinesthere ean beno doubt made thereof. But the Bi-
  22. Cop alledceth 2 C Or. T. IT. That St Paul was helped by eheir
  23. pravers, and that ehesite mas beltowed upon ehem by cheie
  24. IBCaAS, and Fames 5. 26. Theefectual and Fervent praver ot
  25. ariohceous man availeth much. In nh ch places the moras
  26. meanes, effedtual, availech, do not signifie any causation; for
  27. nomannor creature livins can more any effect upon Cod, in
  28. vhom ehere is nothine, that hath not been inhim eternallu
  29. hererofore, nor tbat salt not be inhim eternally hercafter.
  30. but do senisie the order in which Ciod hath placed mens pray-
  31. ers, and his omnblessines. And not much ascer the Bistrop
  32. himself saith, Prayer works noc upon G0d, buc uS. There-
  33. fore it is no cause of Gods Will, in sivine ns his blessines.
  34. but is properly a sene, not a procuration of his favour. The
  35. next thine herepliethto is, that Lmalee prarer to be a lind of
  36. thantessivine, to Whichhereplies, He mishe even as Wvel ceil
  37. mechac when a Begoar crares an Alms, and wetien he sires
  38. chantestoric, ic is all one. Why sod Does not a Beccar
  39. move aman by hisprajer, and sometime morketh in him a
  40. compassion not mithont pain; andas the Scripeure callsit, a
  41. pernine ofthe Bovels, rhichis not so in Cod inhen me pray to
  42. him. Our praverto Cod is a duty; it is noc (oto mn. There-
  43. fore thouch our prayers eo man be distinenisted from our
  44. thantes, it is not nece ssary it Bould be so in our prayers and
  45. ehantes t0 God Amichty.
  46. T0tberest of his Reply in this Number 25. there necds no
  47. Farther Ansiver.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 179. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0179?run=74