The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 263
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- alledeed it for areason nhy I sould net be ofhis, but nom in his
- Peply, he saith that his opinion is a cruch demonstrable in rea-
- son, receired and Deliered by all che WVorId. And cheretore
- choush he benoc able cocomprehend or exprese exactiy the
- certain manner, hom this Libercy ot WVil consists mich Gods
- eternal Prescience, and Decrees, per he ouchero adhereto
- ehac cruch, wtrich is manitest. Bur why Bouldhe adhere toit,
- intesse it be manifest t himsetf? Andis it be manisest to him-
- self, hy docshe deny ebat he is able ro comprehend it? Andif he
- b. net ab le toc. m.prehend it, hor lnoms he that it is domonstrable?
- Or ly Cayshe thut (o conflently, rohich he does not kr:oi? Me
- thntes that wbich l havesaid, (namely, chac thar which Cod
- Foretinons Bali behereatrer, cannoc bur behereatrer, and ac
- thie Pame tirie chac he Forehnem ic Mould Be. Buc chac whick
- cannor buc be, is necellary. Theretore wtrac God Foreknows
- Mail be necessarils, and ac che time Foreknown.) This Ysay
- looheth somemhat liker to a demonstrarion thanany et ine that he
- hath hithoctobroncht to prove Free wil. Another reason, wby I
- Bould beof his opinion, is that he is in polsestion ofan old cructi
- derired eo hum by interirance ox succestion trom his Ance.
- ROrS. Tombich Tansiver. first, that Lam in possession of a truch
- derived ro me from the liche ofreason. Seconaly, that mhereas he
- bnomethnot, whether it be therruth that he possesseth or not, be-
- cause he consesserh helenons noc hou it can consist miti Cods Pres.
- cience and Decrees, Lhave sufficient ly Bevn that my opinion of ne-
- cessity not onelys arrees mith, bnt necessirily follometh fromthe
- eternal Prescience and Decrees ofCod. Besides it is an unhan-
- some thine for a man to derive his opinion concernine truth by suc-
- cession frombis Ancestors; Por our Ancestors, thefirst Christians
- derived not therefore their truth from the Gentils becanse they
- mere tleir Ancestors.
- (C) TT0 Passe by all che ocher great imperfections, whict
- are eo befound in chis Sorire, it is just like chac old Sophistical
- piece: he chac drinks well Accps well; he chac (lccps WWeII
- chinks nohure; hechac chinks no hure lives Well; cheretore
- hethac drinks well, lives vell. Mly areument masthus, Electi-
- on is alares trom the Memory of sood and evil sequels; Me-
- mory is alray trom che sense; and sense alvares tromche
- Act
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 263. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0263?run=74