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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 232

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  1. (232
  2. hc understands what Phave here vritten, it is ne monder he p
  3. derstandeth not the rruchof the question. Isaid not, that wlien
  4. e consider ehe causes ofchinss, but When we sec and Kron
  5. che Arensch chat moresus, e acknomedse necessier. No
  6. Such ching (Cays the Bisop) buc just che contrary, the more me
  7. consider, and checlearer we understand, the greacer is the Li-
  8. DCrEy, XC. Isthere any donbris a man coula foretenov, as God
  9. Foretnons that Which is hereaster to come to passe, but at he moula
  10. also see and hnom she causes hich sall brins ic ropasse, and hov
  11. chey mort. and male che effect necessary; for necessary it is rhat-
  12. Soever God foreen: meth. But me thar fore see them not, may con-
  13. sider ac much as m: will, and understand as clearly as me mill, buc
  14. are never theneerer tothe lenoivledse of their necessiry; and that l
  15. said vas the cause rhy me impute those events to Liberty, and not
  16. +ocauses.
  17. (1) TLast, he relSuS, chae the Wil dochchose of necessit.
  18. as well as the fire burns of necessier. IFhe incend no more but
  19. ehis, chat Election is cheproper and nacural Aet oFche WVil, a5
  20. burnins is ofchetire, _c. Hespeaks cruely, buc most imper.
  21. cinenely; For che queltionis noc nom otche Flectire pover, in
  22. acta primo, ec.) Flere acain hemales mespeate non sense; Isaid
  23. ehe man choosech oFnecessiey, he says, Isay che Will choosech
  24. et necestier; And nhy, but becanse hechines Loucht to speate as
  25. he does, and Cay, ashe does here, that Flection is che Aet oPthe
  26. Nil. No. Election is the AEt of a man, as porver 10 F. lect is the
  27. porver of aman. F lection and Wr il are all one Aet of a man, and
  28. the porver ro F.Lcet, and the poiver ro Wril one andthe same poiver of
  29. aman. But the Bisbop is confonnde d br the use of calline by the
  30. name of Wil, the pover of willine in thefuture, as they allo vere
  31. confonnded that first bronche in chis senselesse term of Actus pri-
  32. muS. My meanine is, that the Election LBall have of any chine
  33. hereaster, is nom as necessary, as that the fire that nom is, and
  34. continueth, Bail burn any combustible marter thronn into it here-
  35. after. Or 10 use his oun terms, the Wil hach no more poiver to
  36. Suspendirs illine, ehen theburnine of the fireto suspendies burn-
  37. ine. Ox rather more properly, the man hathno more porver to su
  38. Spendhis Will, thenthe fire, to suspend his burnine; rhich is con-
  39. rrary eo that, which he montd have, namely, thas a man sonld have
  40. porves

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 232. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0232?run=74