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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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por can be ocherrile, alcer any ocher manner, orin any o-
cherplace, time, number, Beature, order, nOrto any o-
cher end chanchey are. And allchis in respect ofche su
pream cause, or a concourse ot extrinsecall causes, decer-
minins chem eoone.
rrhich thonch dranon up to his advantace, ithas mnchcau-
tion as he mould do a Lease, vet l exceprine that whichis not
intellicible) Tam content to admit. Not intellicibleis, First.
that ehe conrertion of a sinner concerns nocthe Quection.
TFhemean, thatthe conversion ol a snner is fromnecessity, and
praedetermined, thenheis, for somuch asthe Question concerns
Relicion, of the same mindthat L am, and what he can mean
else by that exception Lcannot enesse. Secondly, these mords
Wichoue cheir omnconcurrence, are insenificant, unte(s he
mean that the events themselves Bould concurretotheir pro-
duction: as that fire doth not necessarily burn mithout the concur-
rence of burnine, as the mords properly import: or at least mith
ont concurrence of the fuell. Those tmoclanses leftont, Tagree
mithhim in che state ofthe Question as it is pur universally. But
inhenthe 9uestion is put of the necessitrof any particular event,
asofthe Will Eo vrice, or ihe likee, then it is thestatine of that
particular Onestion: but il is decide d inthe decision ofibe 9)ne-
stion universall.
Ile statesthe same Guestion acaine in another placethus
This is ehe rery Ouection where che warer sicto becween
us, Whecherchere besuch a Pibercy Frec trom necessicarion
and exerinsecall decermination cDOnC, OP nOL. And I al-
lom it also for vell stated so.
Aeainhesares, In a word, (0 great difference thereis be-
creen Natural and Moral etficacy; as there is becmeen his
opinion and mine in ehis uection. So thatthe state of the
Onestion is reduced torhis, Whecher chere be a Moralet.
cacy whichisnocNacural. Jsay there isnot, bc sares ibere
is.
Aeain he rrites thus, Andcheretore as ic Were ridiculous
to Cay, chacthe object ot sipheisthe cause oFsceins; (0
ieis to lay, chac the proposins of the object by thellnder-
Candins cothe Will, isthecause oFWillins. Here also rbe
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