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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 43, page id 1030877386:0055
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rithihe Parson of excreise oncly, specification also contradicti
on, contraricer, but also wich precendine distinction here none
is; for hou is it possible for the liberry of doine or not doine this or
that g00d or evill, eo consist (as he sayes it doth in God and An-
sels) mithont a liberry of doins or rot doins 500d or evill.
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Beneralicies, buc cictier Sophisters or Bunglers. Pir dolosus
versatur in generalibus, deceietul men do noc lore ro descend
eo particulars; and wten bad Archers Mooc, che PaFest
asisco runcoche marke. Liberer islomerimes oppoled
corhe Plarery ot sin and ricious habies, 25 ROM. 6, 22.
Nombeine made frec from sin. Somecimes to milery and op-
prestion, Tlay 58. 6. 70 let the oppressed 5o free. Somerimes
coserritude, 25 Lerit. 25. 20. In the rear of Tubilce re sall
proclaim liberey thronebont the land. Somecimes eo riolence,
25 Ptal. 105, 20. The prince of his people let him 50free. XeC
noneoFallchele are cheliberes non in quection, bue a liber-
cytrom necessier, chacis a decermination eo one, or rather
Fromnocesticarion, thac is a necessier imposed by anocher.
or un extrinsecal decermination. These distinctions, do
rircually imply a descripeion ot erue liberey, Wtrich comes
necrercheessence oFie, ehan V. FI. hisrorins definicion, a5
we strall sec in due place. Andchoush he Pay chache under-
stands never tho more nhat I mean by liberty, vecicis plain by
his omningenuous confestion, bochehac he doch understand
ic, and thacchisis therery Oucltion where che wacer sicks
berwecnus, whecher chere be such a liberey Frec From all ne-
celliration and exerinsecal derermination t0 onc. Which
beins buc chestatins oscho Ouection, he callsic amissthe
takins ofthe Duestion. Ic were too much weakness eo begchis
Oueltion, Which is lo copious and demonstrable. b IEis
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men liestic allthe schoolmen, and Philolophers, and Clal-
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