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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 235

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  1. 238
  2. eosome bicher Dover; bat touse so unscemly à Phrase as 10 say
  3. ihat Codis the cause of sin, becanse it sonndeth so like to sayine
  4. that God Sinneth. Jean never be forced by so vcal an areumss
  5. asthis ofhis. Lucher says We act necessarily; necessarily by ne-
  6. celtier ofimmutabilley, noc by necectier oF constraine, ihat
  7. is in plain Fneliss necellarily, buc noc against our wills. Z an
  8. chiussars Tract. Theol. cap. 6. Thes. L. The Froedom of our
  9. Will doth noc consist inthis, ehac chere is no necelsiey oF Oue
  10. sinmine; bue inchis, ehac chere is no constraint. Bucer. LIb. de
  11. Concordia. Whereas ehe Cacholieks Pay, manhas Frec Will.
  12. we must understand ic of freedum From constraine, and nOc
  13. freedom trem necestier. Calvin. Inst. C ap. 2. 5. 6. And
  14. ehus ChaII man be said cotare Frec WiII, noc because he hach
  15. equall Ercedom eo do 5o0d and eril; buc because he doesthe
  16. erillhe does noc by constraine but willinsly. Monsr. du Mou-
  17. lin, in his Buckler ot che F’aich, Arricle 9. The necestiey ot
  18. Tinnins is noc repusnam to che treedom ofche Will. Wienels
  19. the Verils who are necessarily wicked, ands et sn freelv wich.
  20. our constraine. And the Synodof Dort. Liberey is nOEODDO.
  21. Sice co all kinds of necellier and decermination. Ic is indeed op.
  22. potice 1o chie neceslier ot constraine buc Kandech ell enousti
  23. rich chenecestiey oFintalhbilier. L conld add more. Por all ibe
  24. famons Dectors of ihe Reformed Churches, and mirh them S6. AW
  25. sustine are ofthe same opinion. Nonc of these denied rhat Cod is the
  26. cause of al Motion es action, or that Godis thecanse of al Lavs;
  27. and yet they vere never forced 1o say that God is the canse of sict.
  28. (0) Theymbo inventedthis term of Actus Imperatus under-
  29. Aood nor (heCaieh) any, bine what it signified. NO: WVhy nOL?
  30. Ic scemeth come cher understood it becter chenthose wo ex-
  31. cept asainstic. Ther knem chere are mencaII cerms Whichare
  32. otily conceired in che mind, a5 ell es vocalterms, which
  33. are expressed wichche congue, _c. In this place the Bisop
  34. hath discoveredthe cronndof all his errors in Philosophy, which
  35. is this, thac hechinheth, inhen he repeateth the mords of a propo-
  36. sition inbismind, tharis. wohen he fancierts the mords ithont
  37. speatine them, thar ehen hec conceiveth the trines hich the
  38. mords signifie, andthis is the most senerat cause of false opi
  39. nions. For men cannever be deciived in the conceptions of
  40. 5 2
  41. thines.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 235. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0235?run=74