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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 325

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  1. 225
  2. be has no Locick at all or phintes they haveno reason at adt that are
  3. his readers. Pur he has atricke hesaich to abare the cdee os the dis-
  4. junction, by varrine che proposition chus, IKnow chacic willrain
  5. co morrow, or chac it will noc rain EOmOrrOM, is a truC prOPO.
  6. Rcion; and ret saith he, ic is neirtier erve, chac Phnou ic will rain
  7. cormorron; neicher is ie crue, chac Iknon ic Will nocrainco
  8. MOTTOU. Wrhat childist deceit, or childiss ienorance is this, ul en
  9. he is to prove that neither of the members is determinately true in
  10. a disjunctive proposirion, to brine for instance a proposirion not dis-
  11. junctive? Ir hadbeen disjunctive is it had conethus, Lknom that
  12. it vill rain to morrom, or Tlxow that il will noc rainto morron;
  13. but rhen he had certainly enovn determinare ly one of th. ErO.
  14. (F) T And cheretore eo (a) cicher chis or chac will infallibly
  15. De, buc ic is noc ver decermined whecher chis or thac Mall be, is
  16. rosuch senselesse assertion, chac it deserved a Ficy rice T uparu-
  17. Lice. Bur it is a senselesse asserrion (ehatsoever it deserve) 1o
  18. say that ths proposirion, it sall rainor noc rainis true indecer-
  19. minedly, and neithero them true decerminedy; and licile betrer
  20. as he hath nom qualifcedit, Thac ic wiil infallibly be, choush ic
  21. Benor vet decermined whecher ic MallBe or no.
  22. (5) TIF alI chis will noc saristie him, I wil sire him one of
  23. his oun kinds of proos, chacis an instance. Thac Which ne-
  24. cessitates aII chinss accordins to 7. TJ. is the decrec ot God, _c.
  25. Tiis instance is, chac God himselF made ehis necessientins de-
  26. crec, and cheretore chis decree beins an aet ad extra was frecly
  27. made by God, Withour any necellitation.) L do believe the
  28. Bisop himsels believeththat all the Decrees ot God have been from
  29. alleterniei, and therefore he mii noc stand to rbis that 60ds Decrees
  30. vere ever made; for rhat soever hach been made. hathhad a be-
  31. sinnine. Desides Cods Decree is his Will; andthe Bistop hath
  32. said jormeriy that che Will os God is God, the Fustiie of od,
  33. God, Cxc. If theresore God made a D: cree (accordine torte
  34. Bistops opinion) Cod made himsels. By which m: may sec rohar fine
  35. stusfe it is that proceederh From dispurine of Incomprehensibles.
  36. Acain hesays, if ic had beenthe go0d pleasure ot God, he mighe
  37. hare made some causes frec From necessiey, seeins chac ic nei-
  38. ther argues any imperfection, nor implies any concradiction.
  39. IC0d had made either canses or effects free from necessiry, he had
  40. made

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 325. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0325?run=74