A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke in the years 1715 and 1716 relating to the principles of natural philosophy and religion / [In French and English] With an appendix. To which are added letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity; from a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [J. Bulkeley]: with the Doctor's answers to them. Also remarks upon a book entituled A philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty [by A. Collins] By Samuel Clarke.

Samuel Clarke

Date:: 1717

Credit: A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke in the years 1715 and 1716 relating to the principles of natural philosophy and religion / [In French and English] With an appendix. To which are added letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity; from a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [J. Bulkeley]: with the Doctor's answers to them. Also remarks upon a book entituled A philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty [by A. Collins] By Samuel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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7 h 75° 76, il- Pag» 73> & 67. c 34 ] ver is phyfie ally neceffary, is M? AB ion, nei¬ ther in Godf nor in any other Being. He cites, with Great Satisfaction, certain Weak Expreffions of Some very Learned and Eminent Men, concerning all things being in their own nature indifferent ^ and becom- ing Good, only by Cod'*s Willing them : Alfo concerning infinite Perfection excluding Sue- ce [five Thoughts in God : And that the Ejfence of God is one perfect Thought : And that tho* his Tranfient Acts are done in a SucceJJion of Time, yet his Immanent Acts, his Knowledge and his Decrees, are One with his Ejfence : And that the Immanent ABs of God being fup- pofed Free) *tis not eafy to imagine how they fhould beOne with the divine Ejfence, to which Neceffary Exifence does mofi certainly belong ; And that if the Immanent ABs of God are ne¬ ceffary , then the Tranfient mu ft be fo likewife 5 as being the certain effeBs of hisImmanentABs: And that thus a Chain of neceffary Fate mu ft run through the whole Order of things ^ and God himfelf then is no Free Being. All which, and many other the like Citations, are no¬ thing at all to the Purpofe : Proving no¬ thing, but only (howing the pernicious Ef¬ fects of Scholaflick Jargon, which has fome- times impofed fo far even upon very Learned and Good Men, as to make them think that More Knowledge is conveyed into the Mind by words that have no Signification, than by mere inarticulate Sounds. He alleges, that Saints in Heaven ceafie to have Liberty j and that Angels are more per- feB

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