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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 198

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  1. (198)
  2. chouph he will noc sec chat which ie concerned him 10 an.
  3. siver, _c. a5 namely, ehac ehe Faculey ot willins. _C.
  4. T ansver, that distinction he alledceth not to bec mine. bue
  5. the Scoictes; and therefore lhad no reason to takee notice of il, for
  6. he disputeth noe acainst me butothers. And whereas hesays, it
  7. concerned me es mahe thar ansiver rhich he hath set dovon in the
  8. vords follorinz. Teannot conceive hon it concerneth me, (mhat-
  9. soeverit may do omebody et (e) 10 spea absuraly.
  10. Tsaid that the first cause is a necessary cause of all the ef. Ets
  11. that are next, and immediare toit; rhich can noc bedoubred,
  12. and thonchhe deny it, he does not disprove it. For when he says,
  13. chose chinss which Cod wills wichouchimsele, he wills trecly
  14. and noc necessarily. Fls saysrastly, and untruly. Rasly, be-
  15. canserhere is norbine withont God, Who is Intinice, in whom are
  16. allehines, and in utiom velire, more, and hare our beins;
  17. and untruly. becanse mhatsoever God foreteneW from eterniti, he
  18. mided frometerniey, and therefore necessarily. B. t azainst vois
  19. heareneththus. Whacloerer cause acts, or worts necellarily.
  20. doch mork or act all chac it can do, or all chac is in iEs pover;
  21. huc ic is eridene ehac Crod doch noc all chines which he can do
  22. _c. Inthines inanima: e, the action is almaies accordine to the
  23. ex ent ofirs porver; noc calins inthe Pover of willine. because
  24. they have it noc. But inthose chines tharhaverri, ehe action is
  25. accordine to the W’ole Porrer, mil and all T. Is true that God
  26. doch not al thines that he can do if he will, b. + that he can WViII,
  27. that which he hath not Nilled from all eternicy, I deny; untesse
  28. thac he can not ontr Nil a chanse, bur also chanse tis wil m’ich
  29. all Divines Cay, is immutable; and then ehcy must necds be neces-
  30. Cary effects, thar procced from G0d. And his Zcars, C0d could
  31. have railed up Children unto Abratam, _C. And sene evelve
  32. Lesions oFAnsels _C. mate notline acainst ihe necessity of
  33. those actions which from ehe first canse proceed immediarely.
  34. D.
  35. Kumb. T Firdly. ches distinguisti becveen liberey trom compulsion,
  36. and liberes trom necesticarion. ThC NVIII. Pay cher, istree
  37. Fromcompulion, bucnoc tree trom necellication. And chis
  38. chey forcitie ichemoreasons. Fielt, because ic is sxanced by
  39. aII Dirines, chac hypocherical necessiey, or neceltics upon à
  40. sup POCITIOn.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 198. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0198?run=74