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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 191

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  15. duced, buc byreason oFche insufticieney or debilicy, or con-
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  18. ror, hererracteth it, and confesseth tharche causes of a Monster
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  25. From che debiliey oFchecaule; and lcaves ont necessier, as il
  26. it tame from neither. Zmust note also, that mhere hesays, Ha
  27. cure never intends che generation of a Moncter. Lunderstand
  28. nos hether by nature, hemeane the Auchor of arure, lin
  29. ohich meanihe it deroeares fromCod) or nature it sels as ebe
  30. Oniversal vorke of G0d; and ehen it is absurd; for ehe uni-
  31. verse asone accrecate os chinesnaturat, hath no incention His
  32. Doctrine that folloveth, concernine the generarion of Mon-
  33. sters, is not morth consideration; therefore L leave it nholy te
  34. the Fudcement of the Reader.
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  39. irh Man Fac hoc es vives, Dochis, and hou Male live.
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  41. fiction, mabine aerne sentence false) chat is a man do chis ht
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  43. and Fdisacree not. Thistherefore is not thequestion; but he-
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 191. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0191?run=74