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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 256

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  1. (256
  2. causes. Can any man bur a Schoolman thine the Wil is vo.
  3. luntary? Dut yet the Wil is tho cause of voluntary actions.
  4. f. D.
  5. AuII. 24. PiTFely, and lasly, che Dirine labours eo sind oue a may hon
  6. liberey mav consist wich the prescience and decrees ot God.
  7. Buc et chis I had noc very lone since occalion eo vrice a fuil
  8. discourse, in ansiver co a Prearile asainst che prescience ot
  9. chinss concinsent. IMall For che present only repeat chese evo
  10. chings. First, we oushe noc to desere a cerrain truch, because
  11. e are noc able eo comprehend checertain manner. C0d
  12. Bould bebut a poor 60d, it me vere able pertectly eo com
  13. Prehend all his Actions and Attribures.
  14. Secondly, in my poor judemene, Wrhich Pever do and erer
  15. Bail submie eo berrer, che readielt as eo reconcile Conein-
  16. Sence and Liberer, wich che decrees and prescience oF C0d, and
  17. most remoce trom che alcercarions oFchese cimes, is eo subjeat
  18. fucure concingenes to the aspect ot c0d, accordino corhae
  19. Prelentialiey which chey tave in ccerniey. Noc chac chinss
  20. tucure, Wrhich are noc vec existene are co existene wich (10d
  21. buc because che intinice knomledsc of Cod, incirclins all cimes
  22. in the poine of eternier, doch accain cocheir Fucure Beins.
  23. trom uhence procecds cheir objectire and inteilisible Being.
  24. Themain impedimene which recps men trom subscribins co etis
  25. may is, because chey conceire eternicy co be an everlattins suc-
  26. cettion, and noc one indirisible point. Bur il eliey consider,
  27. thac whracsoerer is in God is God; Thae chere are no accidens
  28. in him, For chac which is infinicely perfect cannor De furtter
  29. perfected; Thac as Cod is noc wise buc Wisedom it selF, nOE
  30. just buc Pultice ic selF, Po he is noc ecernal bur Lcernicy ic selF
  31. Ther must necds conclude char cheretore this erernicy is indi-
  32. visible, Decause God is indivisiole, and cherefore noc suC-
  33. cestire, buc altogerter an infinice poine, comprehendins all
  34. cimes wichin ic selF.
  35. T. II.
  36. e reconciline Liberty miththe Prescience, and Decrees of God.
  37. etherrise than sore Divineshave done, acainst ntom he hadfor-
  38. Merlu
  39. FTF last part ofthis discourse conteineth his opinion about
  40. p
  41. c
  42. p
  43. D
  44. BAI
  45. 1
  46. ibe
  47. )

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 256. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0256?run=74