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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 264

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  1. (264)
  2. Action oF external bodus; and all ActionFrom God; there.
  3. fore all Actions eren ofFree and Voluncary Acentsare trom
  4. God, and consequentiy necessary. Let the Bistrop compare nom
  5. his scurrilons Arcumentarion rith chis of mine, and tell me, he-
  6. ther hethar peeps Well. doth all his liferime chine no hurt.
  7. (d) (In cheveer lat Pallase ot my discourse, I provosed my
  8. omn prirace opinion, hon ic mishebemade appear, chacche
  9. eternal Prescience and Decrees of Godare consitter E WWich FrUE
  10. liberer and concinseney, _cc. ) IF he had meant by Liberty. as
  11. other men do the Liberry of Action, that is, of thines whichare in
  12. his porver, to doc which he ill, it had been an casse matter to recon
  13. eile it With the Prescience and Deerces ofG0d; But meanine the
  14. Liberry of il, it mas impossible. So litemise is by contiency
  15. he tad meant simply commins co passe, it had been reconcilable
  16. Withthe Deerees of God; bui meanine commins eo passe wich
  17. out necestiey, i: Was impossible. Snd therefore, thoughit betrue
  18. hesars, thar he sec ic donn in as plain cerms astre could, yet it
  19. mas impossible to set it donn in plain terms. Nor foneht he to
  20. et arce me nmich misunderstandins tim; and vrestins his worde
  21. o aWrons sense. For thc truchis, Idid not understana th. m ac
  22. alt, nor thonche he understoodthem himsels; but mas milline e
  23. sive them the best imterer tation ther monidbear; which he calls
  24. mrestine them to a vrons sense. And first, Lunderstood not mhat
  25. hemeant bythe aspect of Cod. For is he had meant his foreknom-
  26. ledee. (rhich mord he had otren used before) Wbat necded he in
  27. ihis one place onely to call it Aspect: Or wohat need hebere call it
  28. his Vieir? Or saythat all thinesare open to ihe eyes of S0d, not
  29. discursirelu but ivenicively; mhich is to eaponnd Lyes in that
  30. Teaet Flebr. 4. TT. not fieuratively but litterally, neverthelesse
  31. excludine external Species, Which the Schocl. men say are the
  32. cause of secins. Bur it vat veil done to exclude such insienifi-
  33. cant spceches, upon every occasion wbat oever.nd thongh L de
  34. noc holdtise foretenomledee of God 1o consist in Dilcourle, vet L sall
  35. benever arivente say it is by Turuicion, as lone as Yhnow that
  36. even a manhath forebnomledse of all ose thines m’ich he inten-
  37. dethhimself to do, not by discourse but by knoiins his oun purpose,
  38. savine that man hath a superiour porver cver him it. ac can chance
  39. his parpose, hich God hathnot. And rohercas he fays, Lconsound
  40. tht.
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  42. 2
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 264. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0264?run=74