The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 265
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- (265)
- ihis Aspest mith the wil and Decrees os God, be accuseth me
- nrons fully. For bomcoula. Lso confoundit, nhen L understood not
- nhac it meant. ?
- (e) (Secondly, hecharsechme, chae hitherto Thave main-
- tained, chEE Liberry and the Decrees of God are irreconcileable;
- andthe reasen mhy Ido sois becaule he maincained, chat Liberey.
- and cheabsolure necessier ofall chinss, are irreconcileable.
- I Liberty cannot stand mith necessiey, it cannet stand rith the
- Decrees of God; of mbich Decrees, necessiry is a Consequents
- Inceded rot rosay, nor did say, that Necessity and 605 Dcerces
- are allone: thonchis Thad said it, it had not been mithont Autho.
- rity of learned men, in rhose roritines are often found this sen-
- tence, Voluncas Deis ecesticasrerum.
- (F) (Buc co cuehis Arsumiene Morr. God hach Decreed aMI
- effecto which comeco passe incime, sec noc all atrer ehe lame
- manner, bue accordins eo the distinet natures, capacicies and
- condicions oflis creatures, Which he doch noc destroy by lije
- Decree; Somehe acterh. Flirherto true; then he adderh, wieti
- Comehe cooperateth by special insuence, and lome liconely
- permitreth. Tec eliis is noidle or bare perraistion.) Thisis
- false. For nothins operaterh by its oon original p. Wer, but C,0d
- himsels: Man operateth not but by special po ver. (T say speciat
- porver not special instuence) derivedfrom Cod. No. is ic by Ciods
- permission oncl; as Thave ofrenalr adystom, and as the BiBop
- here contradictine his former Words coniesseth; For eo permic one-
- l, and baroly eo permie sienifie rhe same thinq; And thac whi ch
- hesays thar God concurs by way ot generalinAtuence, i Fargon.
- For ex ry concurrence is one sincular and indivi dnal concurrencc;
- and norhine in ihe Worid is generat; but che sigrification of mords
- and other signs.
- s) ETturdly, he charsechme, chac L allom all mentobeof
- his opin on save onely those that conceive in their minds alTunc
- stans, or hon eterniey is an indivisible point, rather then an ever-
- lastins suecession. But Thare siren no such allovance.) Surely if
- ihe reason wherefore my opinion is false, proceed fromthis, that L
- conceive not erernirus eo be Nunc Cans, but an everlastine successi
- on, Jam alloved to hold my opinion cill l can conceive eterniry
- othermise; at least he allors men nor rill then to beof his opinion
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 265. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0265?run=74