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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Le blameth. And mhere he sayesour Willsare in our porver
he seesnot thathe speates absurdly; forhe oueht ro(ay, tbe
Will is the Pomer; and threnzb ienorance derecteth ihe same
fant in SC. ABCin, Whosarth, our Will Boulanot be a Will
at all, is it vere not in our pover; that is to say, is it ere
not in our will.
E. This is che Deliet oF ail mankind, Which We HaVCNOE
lcarred ErOI OME TW: OrS. Buc is imprinced in aur heares by
NTatnCe, _C.
Phis piece of Eloguence is used by Cicero in bis defence of
Milo, 1o prove it larsul for aman to resist force with Force
or 10 lcep him elf from billins; which the Bictrop (thinkine
himseif ableto mahe that which proves onc chine prove any
Thine) hatheranstare dinto Enclist, and broueht intothis place
toprove Frec- will. Je is true, very fem have lcarned from
Tucors, that a manis not free toilt; nor do they find it
much in BookS. That they find in Books, that which ihe Po-
ets chant intheir Theaters, andthe Shepheards in the Moun-
tains, that whichthe Pastors teach inthe Churehes, and thC
Doctors in the Vniversities, andthat mhichthe commonpeopte
inthe Aarbets, andall mankind in the Whole Worla ad assent
anto, is the same that lassent unio, namely; that a manbath
freedome to do if hewill; but whether he hath Ereedoine 10
Will, is a Question which it seems neither the Biltrox nor
they ever thoueh on.
S Noman Blamech sire For burning Ciries, nor caxech poy-
COn FOF desroying MCM, _C.
Here acainheis uponhis areuments from Blame, nhich L
have ansmered before: and me do as much blame themas me
domen; for me say fire hath donc hurt, andche poyson hach
Killed a man, as mell as ve saythe man hath done uniustly:
bul ve donot seclto be revensed of the fire and of poyson, be-
canse me cannot make tbem aste forciveness, as me moulamate
men to do whentheyburt us; sothat theblamine of theone and
the other thatis, the declarine of the hut or evill action donc
bythem, is the same in both; but the malice ot man is onely
acainst man.
No mans Cins in doins chose chinzs Wtich he covidnoc
ctruI.