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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 190

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  1. (190)
  2. ibis. P’or a say not the Dam injorns thines impossible in them.
  3. selves; for s0 TBould say it injoyned conradictories. But Isay
  4. the Lar Somotimes (the Law. makers noc lenomins tbesecret ne-
  5. cessiries of thines to come) injoynes chines made impossible by se-
  6. erce and exrrinsicall causes from all eterniey. Firom this his error
  7. he infers, thar the Lans must be uniust and Tyrannical. and
  8. the transcression of themno fn. But he rho holas that Lars can
  9. be unjust and grannical, will ensily find pretence enonzh undor
  10. any Goverument in the Wortd eo deny obedience to tbe luaos, un
  11. lesse they besuchashe himsels maketh, or adviseth tobe made.
  12. Flesays also, that Y suppose rhe willis inevirably determined by
  13. special instmence fromthe first canse. Tr is true. saving thar sen
  14. selesse mora IniAtuenco, which L nevernsed. But hu consequence
  15. ehon ie is noc mans NVilI, buc Cods will, is not erue; for it may
  16. berhe W ill bothof ehe one and ofthe other, and yet not by con-
  17. currence, as in a leagne, but by subjection of th. Will of man, 10
  18. the Willos God.
  19. (5) FThac Whichheadds of a fudse is altogerher imperei
  20. nenc, asco his defence: Neicher is a Ciril Judse the proper
  21. Judse, norte Lan ofcheLand a prover Rule oF sIn. Y A
  22. Judce is ro jndee of voluntary crimes. Ile has ne commissionto
  23. lock ino the secree causes that mahe it voluntary. Anlbe-
  24. eause rhe Bistop had said, the. Lau cannot justly punist a crime
  25. that proceedeth from necessitys, it Was ne imperrinent ansver to
  26. Say. che Judse lookesac no trisher cause rhen the Will ofche
  27. Doer. And eventhis as hesayetho is enourh to proove that
  28. etie Wiss oFetre Doer did determine ic Polf Freely, and chac che
  29. Maletactor had liberey co hare kepr che La ithe vould. 70
  30. hich Tansiver, that it proves indeed, rhat the Malefactor had
  31. Liberry io have keperhe Lavis he monld; bur it proveth not
  32. that he hadehe Liberer to havea illto Reepthe Lam. Cor
  33. doth it prove thatrhe Will of the Doer dd determine it sels
  34. frecly; for nochine van prove non fenee. But here ron see mbar
  35. the Bishop pursceth in ehis Wnle F sply. namelY, 10 prove, that
  36. a manhath Liborry to dois hevill, which i deny noti; and thintes
  37. ihen hehach donetbat, e hach proived n man harb Liberty to
  38. Will, which he oatios hemills dererminine of ic sels freely. And
  39. uberens he vads, a sudee ous tc vollook ac all essential caules,

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 190. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0190?run=74