The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 211
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- cary) equallys Frec. As for Caiphas his praphecy Which ehe
- Text saith, Fle spalee nor of himself, it mas necesarr; first, because
- it mas by ehe supernaturat eife of Cred ro the Flieh priests assove-
- raiens of the Common mealth os the Feris, to speakta the people as
- from the monthof60d, that is tosay, to prophesie; and sccondli
- Whensoever hedid speake not as from C: od, but as froma himsetf, it
- Was neverthelesse necessary hesonid de so, not that he miche not
- have beenpilent if he monld, but because his mill io speak mas an
- recedem ly determine d to mhat hesho la speal from all Eternity;
- Which hehath vet bronehe no areument ro contradiet.
- eapproveth my modesty in suspendine my judcement concern
- ine the manner horo the cood Ancells de vork. Nccsarily or
- Freely because T find it not set dorn in the Articles ofour Paith.
- nir in the decreesof our Church. But he useth not the same modesty
- himsels. For hereas hecan apprehend neither the Xature os
- God norof Ancels; nor conceive what lind of thine it is, which in
- them hecallethrill, he neverthelesse takes nxon him to attribute
- tothem. Liberey of Exereile, and to deny ihem a Liberey of Speci
- fication; to erant them a more incensive Liberry then me have,
- buc not a more excentire; usins not inconeruousty inthe incompre-
- hensibiliry of the subject incomprehensible terms, asLiberey otP. xer-
- eile, es Liberty oEspecifeation; es decrees of intention in Liberty.
- as is one liberty, like heat, mighe be more intensive then anorher.
- It is true. that there is freater liberty in a larce then in a strait prio
- son, but one of those Liberries is not more intense thenthe other.
- (f) His second reatonis, Ie thar ean do what he wil, harh
- au Liberer; and he that cannot do mhat he WWill, barh no Liberty.
- IEchis betrue, then there are no degrees of Liberey indecd.
- Buc chis Which he calls Liberey, is rather an Omniporence, chen
- aLiberey.)Tis one thine rosay, a man hath Liberry 10 do
- hat heWill, ant another thine to say he hath porver to do hae
- he rrill. A man that is bonnd monid say readily hehath not
- the Liberty romale, but he mill not say he manes the Porver. But
- the siek n an vill lay he mants the Porer to walte. but not the Li-
- berry. Thisis as Lconceive rospeate the Enrlist tongue; and
- consequently an Fneli manmill noc sar the Liberry 10 do What
- herrill, bat the Pomer 1o do rhat he Will, is Omnipotence. And
- cherefore citber Lor the Bishop understand not Enslist. Wrhereas
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 211. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0211?run=74