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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 259

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  1. (259
  2. Imislic justly hold my polsection uneil a beeter ticle Were
  3. Mewed Foranocher. He is no old Poressor, but a new Pre-
  4. cender, and is bound co make sood his claime by evidene
  5. proots, nec by meal and inconsequene surpolicions, or induce.
  6. menes, uch as chose are wtrich he ulech here, ot praises, disprai-
  7. ses remards, punistments, the memory of. 5.0d ana cvil sequels,
  8. and evenes, Which may incline ehe mill, bue neictier can nor do
  9. necellicace the will. Nor by uncercain and accidencal interen
  10. ces such as chis. T he memory os praises, dispraises, remardi. punist-
  11. meurs, sood and evil sequels de matee us (heMould lay dispose
  12. 15) toclcet vbat me clect; bur the memory of these ilings is from
  13. ehse sense, andthe sense fromthe operation of the external ob, ects,
  14. and the Acency of external objects is onely from Cod, therefore alt
  15. actions, even of free and voluntary Acents, are necessary. (C) 20
  16. PaIsby allthe ocher preac imperfections, which are co be found
  17. inehis Sorice. Iris just like chac old Sophistical piece: Hlechae
  18. drints well Aceps weI, he ehac Aecps WelI chinks nO huTE
  19. tic chac chints no hurelires well, cheretore hethac drines weil
  20. lires Wvell.
  21. (d) In che very sast passase oEmodiscourse, I propoled
  22. mine onn prirare opinion, hon ic mighe be made appear, chgc
  23. ehe Fcerral Prescience and Decrees of Crod are consistent mich
  24. erve liberer and continseney. And chis Psec domn, in a5 plain
  25. cermsas Pcould, or a5 so profound a speculacion wonld permit,
  26. etrich is almost wholly misundersood by T. FI. and many ot
  27. my words vrestedeo a urons sense. A5 FirH, Where I speak OF
  28. ehie aspect ofCod, chat is his rien, hishnomledee, by itich
  29. che most free and contingene actions vere manitestro him
  30. Frometernier, Heb. 4. TI. AII thines are naeed and opento his
  31. eres, andchis noc discursivels, buc incuicively, noc by external
  32. species. bue by his internal Flence; Hle confounds chis wich
  33. theWil, and che Decrees oFCod: Though he Found nocche
  34. mord Aspect betore in ehis discourse, he mishehare Found
  35. prescience. (e) Secondly, he charsech me chac hither tol
  36. hare maintained, chac Liberry and the Decreesof God, are irre-
  37. cilable. TF Y have Peid any such chins, my HCATEREVeY WENE
  38. alons wich my pen. No, buc his reason why he chargechme
  39. onchis manver, is because P hare maincained, thac Liberry and
  40. R K Z
  41. th

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 259. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0259?run=74