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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 257

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  2. merlys vritten a Freatise, ut o) Wohich he only repeat eth vo thines.
  3. Oneis, that me oncht noc eo desert a certoin truh, for not beine
  4. able ro comprehend the certain manner of it. And Y sayihe
  5. Came, as for example, that he ought not i0 deserrthis certuin truth;
  6. That there are certain and necessar: canses, Wih malee cV ry
  7. man to vill Btat he will. ch, thouch he do no yet concciv. in w’at
  8. manner ehe villos manis cans. d. And vet J el inte the manner of
  9. it is not very bard to conccive. sceine that ne sce dui y that
  10. prai se dispraise revard, punistment. Soc d an devil sequels ol m ns
  11. actiosretaine d in memory doframe andm le us tothe electionof
  12. Whatsoever it be that ve el et. Andi a thememory es such
  13. thines procceds from the senses and sense rom the operationoi the
  14. objects of sense, hich are ext rnal rous. and coverne d oncly by C;od
  15. Mlnighey. And byconsequ. nec, ullactins, cven os free and vo-
  16. nncary Asents are necessars.
  17. The otber chine herepeatethis, that the best vay eo reconcile
  18. Contingency and Li eriy w eh, the presei nee and Decrees of God.
  19. is ro subject fucure contincents torhe aspect of601. T hesame is
  20. also my pinion. but cent ary ro whar he hach all this hile labou-
  21. red roprove. For, tieherro he held liberry and necessity, thatis to
  22. say, liberty ardthe decrees of C’odirreconcilable, unlessthe aspect
  23. of Ciod rtich mord app. arech nom the first time in this discourse)
  24. sienifir Somembat ilse besides Gods will and decrce, which Tcannot
  25. anderstand. Bu he adds, that ve must subject them accordine to
  26. that presentiale, which they lave in eterniey, Which le says can
  27. not be done by them that conceive eternity to be an everlasti ns fnc-
  28. cession, but oncly by them thar conceive ir an indivisible point. 70
  29. this Lansiver, l’a as soon as J ean conceive Pterniey robe an indi-
  30. visible poine, or auy thins but an everlastins suecession, lWil re-
  31. nonnce all l have vritien in ehis, ubject. LknoW SC. ThAMAS
  32. AGuIaS calls eternity Nunc RanS, an ever abidine nem Wwhichis
  33. easy enor eh to say, but thos ch : fain rould. Lnever conld conceive
  34. it. Theychat c.n, are more hapry than L. But in the m. an time
  35. he allorveth hereb al men to be of my opinion. save onely Hl’ose
  36. that conceive incheir minds a nunc Rans,. Which Lthinke are none.
  37. Lund rstand as l’et le boir it can be true that 60 l is not just, but
  38. fustice ie sels, not wise but wrisedom it self, not eternal but Eter-
  39. nity it sels. Nor hor he concludes thence, that L. ternicy is a point
  40. K K
  41. indivisible

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 257. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0257?run=74