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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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the antversare erasions, thac his arguments are paralo.
silms, chac che opinion ot absolure and unirersal NeceMey
is but a resule oF lome froundlels and illchosen principles,
and ehac ehe defect is noc in himselF, Due chachis cause wili
admie no beccer detence; and cherelore by his Farour Fam
resolved eo adhere comy Arst opinion. Perhaps anoctier man
readins chis discourse wichi octier exes, jud seth ie to be pex-
civene and well Founded. Hon comesthis co paIS3 chCEred.
eise ischelame, che exreriour causes arechelame, recetre
resolucion is contrary. Do ehe second causes plaz Fast and
loose: do chey necessirace me eo condemn, and neceiIFaLe
himcomaincain? Whacis icctien : thedifference must bein
our Pelres, cicter in our incellectuals, because etie one sees
clearer chan che octer, or in our affections, Whieh berray
our unsterstandinss, and produce an implicice adhaerence in
cheonemore chan inche ocher. Housoerer ic bes the dif-
ference is in our selres. Thie ouemard causes alore donDE
chainmeeothe one resolurion, nor him eo ehe orher relo-
lucion. BuCT. FP. maf Pay, chac our sereral and respectire
deliberations and afections, aro in pare che caules oF our
concrary resolurions and do concur wirhche anrward cau-
Tes, eomake up onc coral and adaquotecause, toche nece-
Pary production ot chis efteet. IEic be l0, he hach (pun a
fair chred, eo mmake all ehis sir For luch a necesiey a5 no man
erer denyed or doubred of; urtien alt ehe caules hare actu-
ally decermined chemselres then ehe eAfect is in beino. For
ehouxhi chere be a prioricy in nacure becween che cause and
ehe effect, verthey arecopecher intime. And che old rulo
is, (C) rhacsoever is, nhen it is, is necessarily seas it is. This
is no absosure necessier, buc oneluuxon supposicion, thacq
man hach decermined his omn liberey. Whien me quection
Wrhecher all occurrences benéceslar, vo do noc quection
Whecher chey Be necellary whenther arc, nor whecher chev
B0 neceslary in sensu composiro, atrer mehare resolred and
Finally derermined whac ro do, buc Whether chiey vere necel
Cary belore ehiey vero determined by our lotres, by orin
che pracedene daules belore oux selres, or ihetio exteriour
causes mictioue ou selres. Ilis noEineonA ichee
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