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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 229

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  1. (229
  2. (e) Da reniam Tmverator, ru carcerem, ille sehennam min
  3. naTUT. Exeuse me, OEmperor. thon chrearnest men with Prison but
  4. God threatens me mith Fel.)ThisSentence, and that rhieh he saith
  5. Nu b. 27. ehat neither the civit Fude, is the proper Fudee, vor the
  6. Lau ofthe Landis the properRule of sin, es divers other sagines of
  7. his to the same effect, make it impossible for any Lation inthe Wortd
  8. eopreserve themselves fromcivil Wars. For al men livine equal
  9. sy actnomledeins that the Flish and Ommipotent God is to be
  10. obey d before rhe createst Emperours; cvery one may pretend the
  11. commandement of Cod ro Fustifie his disobedience. And is one man
  12. pretendeth that Cod comm ands one rhine, and another man that he
  13. commands the contrary, wlat equiry is there to allou the pretence
  14. ofone, more then of another? Or wharpeace can there be if they
  15. be ail allome da lite? Fhere wil therefore necessarily arise discord
  16. and civil War, untesse there be a Fadee acreedupon rith Autho-
  17. rity sivento him by every one of them, to Bom them, and inter-
  18. pret ro themtheWord os Cod, rhich Interpretor is alvayes the Fm-
  19. perour, Kins, or other Soverain person, who therefore oucht tobe
  20. obered. But the Bishop thintes that tostem us and intertr et tons
  21. the Wordof Cod, belonseth to the C lerey, mherein Lsannot consent
  22. untohim; Exeuse me, OBishop, rou threaten me mith that jon
  23. cannot do, buc the Fmperour threarenethme With death, andis
  24. able to do rhat he threateneth.
  25. (5) (Secondly, he errs in his superstruction al(o. Thereis
  26. apreat disterence, asco this case of Justityins, or noc sustityine
  27. on Action, becreen Force and Fear, ac. Force dochnoc one-
  28. ly lessen cheun, buc cakes ic quire avay, _cc. ) TknoW not to
  29. har point of my ansver, this P exlyof his is to be applred. Phad
  30. said che actions ofmen compelled, are neverchelesse volun-
  31. TArV. It Seems thac hecalleth Compulsion Force; buc Icall it
  32. a fearofforce, or of dammaze ro be done byforce, by mhich fear
  33. amans will is framed to somenhar, to mhich he had uo mill before.
  34. Force taleth avay the fin, because the Actionis noc his thatis
  35. forced, bat his that forceth. Tt is not almayes so in C ompulsion
  36. becanse in this case a man electeth the L. ese Lvil under the notion
  37. of 600d. But his instances of the betroched Damsel that mas
  38. forced, and of Tamar, may for any rhine there appeareth in the
  39. Text, be Instances of Compulsion, and yet rhe Damsel and Tamar

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 229. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0229?run=74