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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 26, page id 1030877386:0038
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otnimsel sofarre as tbey are sienifieant, mate acainst bim.
Fonover wharsoever thines there is dominion, those thines are not
Frces and thereforea mans actions arenot Free. Andif a man
determine himself, ihc 9)uestion nill stil remain what determi-
nedbim to determine himself in that manner.
(4) Thare peruled chis Preatise, weighed Z. II. his an(-
vers, considered his reasons, _C.
This and thatmhich folloreth, istalline tohimsels at ran-
dome, till he come ro allendee that rrhichhe calleth an old rule
rhich is this, (c) Whacsoereris, When ic is, is necessarily
(025 ic is. Thisis no absoluce necestiey, buc onely uxon
suppolicion chac a man hach decerminedhis omn liberer.
_c.
IFibe BistroB chinte that Lholdno other Z cocssicy than thac
erhichis expressed inthat old foolistrule, he neither understand.
ethme, ner what the mord Neceltary sienisicth. Necessary is
hat Which isimpossible co be ocherwise, or chacwhich can-
nocpossibly octiermiso cometopasse. ThereforeNeceslari,
Postible, and Impossible, baveno sienification inreference to
time past, or time prelene, but onelycime co come. Ais He-
cectary, and his in sensu compotico sienifie nothine; My
Necellary is a Necellary from al Fternicy; aud yet not incon-
sistent mitherue Liberry, mhich doch not consist in determinine
it self, but in doine what the rill is determine d unto. This do-
minion over ic selF, and this senus COmDOTIcUS, andthis, de-
cermininsicselt; andthis, necellarils is whenicis, are con-
fusedand empey mords.
(E) IFctie chainoF Necessiey be no stronger, bur chac it
may bo napped lo casils in sunder, exc. by che Cisnification
Ofvour Lordchips delire, and my modest increaey, then we
may lately conclude chachumane attairs, c.
Whether my L.Ords desire, andthe Bistiopsmodest intreaty mere
enouch eo produce a Will in me to rrite an ansmer tohistreatise,
rithont other concurrent causes. Tamnot sure. Obedience tohis
Loraip did much, Cmycivilieyts the Bimrop did sommhat, e
perhaps there vere other imacinations of mineoron, that contri-
bared their part. Batthis Tam sure of, that alltoecrber they vere
sufficient to frame my millthereto; and mhatsoever is sufficient to
prodHe.