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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 266

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  1. (266)
  2. for he hath said, thac the main impediment which kecps men
  3. trom subscribino co thar way oftiis, is because chey conceire
  4. eternier, eo be an everlastins succestion, and noc one indivis
  5. ble Point. As for the many other mayes rhich he says are pro-
  6. Dosed by Dirines For reconciline che ecernal Prescience and
  7. Decrees oFGod with che Libereo and Contingency ot second
  8. caules, is they mean such Liberty and Contingency as the Bishop
  9. meaneth, ther are proposed in vain; for Truth and Frrour can
  10. n.ver bercconciled. Bur hoverer, (saith he) chousha man
  11. couid comprehend none ot all chese wares vec me mustre-
  12. member, thac a cerrain Pruch oughr nor to berejected, because
  13. We are noc able co understand thereason ofic. For he knoms
  14. Che says che load. stone hach an accractive pover to draw che
  15. Tron eo ic, and vet he knometh noc ho ic cometh co have sucte
  16. aPOIVeE. I enom the load stone hathno such attractive pover;
  17. and ret Lnom eat the lron comethroit, or it tothe Tron; and
  18. cherefore monder not that the Dishop lenomerh not how it comethto
  19. have that porvir. In thenext place he Cayeth Tbrine nochine t0
  20. prove that Eternity is not an indivisible point, but my omninca-
  21. paciru chac T cannoE conceive ic. The rruthis, Pcannot dispute
  22. neiiber for, nor acainst (as he can do) the positions Tunderstand
  23. vot. Nor do J understand what derocation it can berothe Divine
  24. perfection, ro attribure to it Potentialicy, that is lin Enelisti)
  25. Porver, and successive Duration; for such Attributes are often
  26. siven to it inthe Scripture.
  27. (B) THe Saieh moreover, ehac he understands as lurle hom ir
  28. ean beerue which Tsay, that Codis nor Fust, but Justice it sel.
  29. nor Eternal but Eierniry it self. IE seems howsoerer he be versed
  30. in ehis question, thac he hach noc troubled his head over much
  31. wich readins School. Dirines, or MecaphysicianS. They are
  32. unscemly mordi tobe saidof Cod, (I will noc Jay) bla sphemons and
  33. atheistical, whichare the attributes he sives to my opiniens because
  34. Tdo n. s thinte them spoken ont of an evil mind, but out of Frrour.
  35. they are T Cay un cem ly mords to be said of 60d, that he is not just.
  36. tat heis rot Fternal, and (as he also Caid; that he is nor Wise,
  37. and cannot be exensed by arr follori s BuC, especiall, Wohenthe
  38. Bucis follomed by ehat mbichisn+ to be unuerstood. C’un any man
  39. understand lon Fusticeis just, or Wisdone Wise: and mhereas
  40. Tustice

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 266. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0266?run=74