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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 260

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  1. (260)
  2. ese absolute necessiei of all thines are irredonciliable: Thac is
  3. eruc indced. Whacchen: W’y (Paich he) Nccessiry and Cods
  4. Decrees are altone. How all ones chac vere Atrange indeed.
  5. Necesties may be a consequent ot Ciods Decrees, ic cannot be
  6. ehe Decree ic selF. (f) Buc ro cur his argumene MOrE. G0d
  7. hach decreedaII effects Wwhich come to pals in cime, vec noc all
  8. alcer thetame manner, bue accordins co che distinet natures.
  9. capacities and condirions ofhis creacures, Wlich he dochnoc
  10. destroy by his Decree; Sorme he acteth, wich some he coopera
  11. cech by special inAuence, and Pome he onely permirtech. Tet
  12. chisis noidle or bare permistion, sceins he dech concur boch
  13. by way of general inAuence, sivins pomerio act, and also bv
  14. dispolins allerenes necestary Frec, and coneinsent cohiis omn
  15. Slory. (8) Thircly, he charsechme, chac Lallo ail mento
  16. be of his opinion, save onely those that concerve in their minds a
  17. Nunc Hans, or hom eternitr is an indivisible point, rather than an
  18. everlastins succession. Buc P have siren no such allomance.
  19. Ttino, chereare many ocher mayes proposed by Dirines, For
  20. reconcilins che Lcernal Prescience, and Decrees oF Cod, wirti
  21. ehe Liberer and Concinsency of second causes, lome ofntrichi
  22. may please orher judsmenes becrer chanchis ofmine. Hou
  23. soerer, choush a man cousd comprehend none ot all chele
  24. ayes, vec remember whac Lsaid, chac a certain cruch ousbe
  25. nocro berejected, because weare not able, in respect ot our
  26. meahnels, eo understandchecerrainmanner, or reason oFie.
  27. Tknom, ehe L. oad. Hone hach an acrractive pover ro dran che
  28. tron co ic; And vec Lknow noc hon ic comestohare sucha
  29. DOrer.
  30. Buc ehe chiefest difficuler which offers ic selF in this section
  31. 15, Whecher Pcernicy be an indirisible poine (a5 I maintain it)
  32. Or aneverlattins succestion, as hemouldhareit. Accordins
  33. eo his constantuse, he siresno ansiver to whar was ursed by
  34. me, buc pleadsasainst ic trom his omn incapacier. I never contd
  35. conccive, saithhe, hon eternity Bouldbe an indivisible point. L
  36. beliere, chac neither e nor any man else can comprehendic (o
  37. cleeriy, as we dothese inseriour chinss. The necrerthac any
  38. chins comes coche essence ot Cod, the more remote ic is Fiom
  39. our apprehention. Bur Mall ne cheretore malie porencialities,
  40. 2n
  41. I1
  42. in
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 260. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0260?run=74