The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 346

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1. (346)
2. Cods Will, but are milled by bimbus a permistive Will not an
3. operative Will, and hardeneth che leart. of man by a necative ob.
4. duration; That mans Will is in his omnper, but his OTUS
5. primo primi not in hisoin porrer, nor necessary save onely by a
6. FEyporherical necessityi That the Wrillto chance is not abmayes a
7. chance of WWil; T har not all thines whichare produced are produced
8. trom lusticiene but some et ines trom deticiene canses; Thar ifthe
9. Porver ofehe Will bepresent in actu peimo, then ther is nothine
10. mancine cothe production of the effect; That a cause may be sust:
11. si nt for the production of an effect thonch et mant somethine ne:
12. cessary tothe production thereof, because the Wrill may be mantine:
13. That a necessary cause dotn not alvayes necessarilys produce its
14. effect, bat onely then when the effect is necessarily produced. Ie
15. proveth also, thattherillis frec, by that universal norion mhich
16. the Worid hachof election; For mhenof the six electors the votes
17. are divided equally, the Kins of Bohemia hath a castine voyce;
18. That the Prescience ofG0d supposeth no necessity of the furure exi-
19. stence ofchechinzs foretnoron. because God is not eternal but eter-
20. nicy, andeternier is as landins NNou, mithont succession ofrime,
21. and therefore Cod foresces all thines intuitively by the presentin
22. allier ther have in Nunc sans, which comprehendeth in it all time
23. past, present, and to come, not formally but eminent ly and vertu-
24. ally; That theWrill is free even then rhen ic acteth, but that is in a
25. componnded, not in a divided sense; That tobemade, and to be
26. eternal, do consist together becanse Cods Decrees are made and
27. are ne vertheless eternal; Thatihe order, beaucy, and perfection of
28. the Worid doth require that in the universe there souldbe Acents
29. ofallsorrs some necessary. sime free, lome contingent; T hat thouch
30. it be true that to morron it Ballrair or not rain, ret neirher of
31. them is erue decerminate; Thar the Doctrine oj necessity is a
32. blasphemons desperate and destructive doctrine; T hat it Were betrer
33. tobe an Ath ist chat thentoholdit, es he thar mainrainethit is fit-
34. ter tobe refurea Wwirh Rodds then ich Arcuments (And nom mhe-
35. cher this his Doctrine or mine be the more intellieible, more rational
36. ormore comformable to Cords rrord. Dleaveit toch: Fudement of
37. ibe Reader.
38. But nhaso ver be the truth os che di, puted Ducstionthe Reader
39. may

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 346. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0346?run=74