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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 38, page id 1030877386:0050
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Fle hath very liile reason eo say tbis. Ie requested me toret
him my oxinion in roricins concernine Frec- Will. Wrhich Ldid
anddid let h.m lenom a manvas Free in those ebines that ivere
in his porver, to tollon his Will; bat chat hemas not Free to
Nii, ehat is, that hes miil dia not follon his will, which)
expressed in these moras, che Mneltionis, Whecherche will to
vorice, or the willeo torbear. comcupon amanaccordine eo
his Will, or accordins ca any ching elle in his oun poiver.
Fle that canxot understand the difference betmeen Free eo doit
he wiil, andEree eo WIII, is not fir (as Phave (aid inthe Statine
of ihe Duestion), tobear this (ontroversie disputed, much le (5
+obea rriter in it. Hlis consequence, it a man DC HOEFrCC 1O
Wwill, he is noc a Free, nor a Voluncary asene, and his say-
ins che Frcedome ot the Agenis From che Frcedome ot thC
Wil, isput here withont proot; nor is there any considerable
proos of it thronchchehole B00 lereafcer offered. For hy:
he never before had heard (Y believe) of any distinction be-
emcen Frectodo and Frectowill, mhich mates hin at(o say
itche Will hore noc porver orer ic (clF, che AgenE isnomore
Erec, chana Scaft in a mans hand. As if it mere noc Freedome
enonch for a man eo dotrae he will, aless his Will allo
have poner over his WVill, and thatbis NIII be not the pover
et self, but must have another poiver within it tode alt volun-
taryacts.
EIF ic Be precilely and ineritably decermined in aII occur-
rences Whacloerer, Whraca man Mall WV ill, and whac heMalI
noc WilI, and wrhache Ball vrice, and whrac he Mallnoc
errice, ionhac purpose is chis PoWer, ec.
Ir is tothis purpose, that allthose thines may be broneht to
passe, whicb Cod hath from Fterniti prederermined. It is
rherefore tono purpose hereto say, that God and Nature hath
made norhine in vain. But sec mhat meale Arguments, he
bringsnext, Which ibonch ansmered intbat whichis eone be-
fore, yet is Tansmer nocacain, he will say chey are t0o hot for
my fincers. One is, Itche Rgene DC decermineo whae he
strail WVill, and Whiac heCall Aa, Thenheisno more Firee
to Rathanhe is ro WilI; as if the ill beins neceffitated, the
doinsof Whacne Willmerenot Liberes. Another is. IF a
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