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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 234

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  3. Surdiey os chemhimself. And the Bistop in this part ofhis Reply,
  4. indeavours to defend them. And first he calls it a Frivial and
  5. Grammatical objection. eo say therare improDer and oblcure.
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  7. to speat improperiy and obscurely, nhere thetruth is in questi-
  8. on. Perhaps it may be rollerab le in one that Divineth, but not in
  9. him that pretendethto demonstrate. It is not the univer sal Current
  10. OF Dirines, and Philosophers, that sivethrrords their Autho-
  11. riey; but the generaliry of them iho actenorledee, that they under-
  12. stand them. Tyrancand Praerunire, thouzh their sirnificarion be
  13. chanced, ret thez aro understood; and so are the names of the
  14. Days. Suncar, Manday, Tueldar. And when Enslist R eaders
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  17. But mybravine aeinst that famois, and mest necessary distin-
  18. ction berreen the Elicite aud Imperate Acsof thetril le says mas
  19. onely to hide from the eyes ofthe Reader a cereiver sation in not
  20. ansverine this Areument of his; he vitio doch necesicace rhe
  21. Wilcoerit, isthetrue cause oFeril; Bur Cod is noc the cause
  22. OF cril; Theretore he does noc necessicate che WVil co eril.
  23. This Arcument is not iobe found in this Numb. 20. to which P
  24. here ansvered; nor had L ever said that therril was compelled.
  25. But he tahine al necessiration for Compulsion, doth nov in
  26. this place from necessiration simply, bring in this Inference con-
  27. cernine the cause of evill, and ihines he shall force me tosay, that
  28. Codis the canse of sin. Esall say onely vhat is said in the Scrip-
  29. ture. Non estmalum, quod eso non feci. T sall say nhat
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  31. hach pue a lyins Spirie ineo ehe mouch of all chese chy Pro-
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  33. saich, 2 Sam. 16. 20. T. et him curse Decause the Lord hach Paid
  34. udio him, curse David. But that which Eod himsels. saithof him.
  35. self, T. Kincs 12. 25. The Kine heartened not ro thepeople, for
  36. the cause Was fromthe Lord, Tmillinot say. least the Bistrop. ex-
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  38. have authorier ro interpret the Scripeures. T say further, thatto
  39. canse sin is nos almays sin, nor ean be son in him thariis not subject
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 234. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0234?run=74