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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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but hior Realon representeth any thine eo theVill. Y under-
stand no more, thanthe Bictrop understands there may be Liber-
ey in Chilaren, in Beasts, and inanimate Creaturs. For he
scemethro monder ho Childrenmay be lefiat Liberty; ho
Beasts imprisoned may be set at Liberty; and horr a River
may have a freecourse; and saith, what. will he ascribe Li.
berry toinanimare Creatures also e Andthus he thintes hehath
made it clear homNecessier, Spontaneier, and Liberey differ
fromone another. If the Reader find it so. Tam contented.
bFis Necessiey is just suchanscher, a Neccey epon Cup-
poticion, aritins trom che concourle oF all the causes, inclu-
dins che last dictate oF cheunderstandins in realonable Crea-
TATCS, EEC.
The Distop mishe casily have seen, that the Necessicy L
hold, is the same Necessuy that he denies; namely a Necessicr
ofthines future, thatis, an antecedent Necessiry derived from
the very beginnins of time: and that Lput Necessity for an
Impossibility of not beine; and that impossibility as vell as
Possibility arc never truly said, bnt et the future. Ihnoi as
ell ashethat checause roben it is adaquare (as he calleth it)
or entire (as Pcal it) is tocether in time mitb the effect. But
for all thar the Necessiey may be andis betore the effect, as
muchas any Lccessiry ean be. Andthonch he cal il a Ne-
cessey of supposition, it is no more so. than all otber Necessity
is. Thestreburnech necessarity: but not mithont supposition.
that there is fervel put toit. And it burneth the fervel (wbon
it is put toit) necessarily: but it is by supposition, that the or-
dinary course ofnature is net hindred: L’or the fire burnt not
hetbreo Children in the Furnace.
But is chele caules did operare Frcely, or Concinsencly.
il chey miohe havo suspended, or denied their concurrence,
Ox trare concurred alcer anocher manner, chen the effeet Was
noc erulys and ansccedeney necessarr, bur cithertree, Or COn-
EInGCHE.
Lt seems by this he understandeth not mhat these mords Frce
and Concinsene mean. a litrle before he mondred L Bould
atrribute Liberey eo inanimate C reatures, and non be puts
canses amonest thosethines that operate Fixcely. By these cau-