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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 183

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  7. Number ZV I.
  8. N this Zumber he moula prove thatthere must be Free A-
  9. acents, and Contingent Acents; as mell as Necessary Agents+
  10. fromthe Order, Beauty, and Perfection of ihe worid. Lchat
  11. thought that ibe Order. Beamy, ond Perfection oftheroridre-
  12. quired that which mas in therorid, and not that mhich the
  13. Bictrop bad necd of for his Arcument, conld sce no forceos con-
  14. seguence to inferre that mhich he caus Frce and Contincent.
  15. That which is in the Worid is theorder, Bcauty, and Perfecti-
  16. on nhich Cod hath eiven the orid; and yet there are no
  17. sents intheworid, butsuch asworkascen Necessiy, or an un-
  18. seen Necessicy; and whenthey morke an meseen Necesserr in orea
  19. rures inanimare, thenare those creatures said tobe rmroneht
  20. upon contingenty, and eo vorte Contincently. And ihen tbe
  21. Nocessiry unseen is of the actions of men, ihen it is commonti
  22. salled Free, andmishe beso in other livine creatures; for Free
  23. and Voluntarz are the same tbine. But che Bictroo inhis Re-
  24. plus harhinsistea mest upon this, that I male Et a contradictionto
  25. Saythat le chac makerh a chins, doch noc make it necessary.
  26. and monders hom a Contradiction ean beinone Proposition.
  27. andyet withinemo or three lines after fonna it mieht be; and
  28. therefore ro clear the marter he sayes that such NeceCCy is not
  29. Ancecedent, but a Hecessicy otsuppolicion; which never-
  30. thclessis the same lind of Xecessiu hichhe actribureth tothe
  31. burnins of the fire, nhere there is a necessiy that the thine
  32. thromnintoit siall beburned, thonch pet it be but burnine, or
  33. but departine fremthe hand that thromes it in; andtherefore
  34. the Necessity is Antecedent. The lihe is in maline a Carment;
  35. ihe Necessity beginsfrom the first motien iomards it, which is
  36. from Pternity, thonch ehe Taylor andehe Bistrop arc equally
  37. ansensible ofit. TFihey Camthe mhole order and conjunction of
  38. Causes, tbey moula say it vere as Tecessary as any thine else
  39. can possibly bc; and therefore Cod that seesthat order and con-
  40. junction lnomes it is necessary.
  41. The rest of his Reply is toareue a contradiction in me; for
  42. besayes.
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 183. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0183?run=74