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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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25 bY an FFCIEDE, is non sense. And wbere he saitb, that iC
is ridiculous co Pay, ehe object oF ehe Bohe is che coure OF
Cceins, he Bometh soclearly thac he understandeh nochine at all
of Nacural Philosophy, ehat L amCorry Lhad theill fortune eobe
encared mith him in a dispute of this kind. There is nothine
chatche simplest Connery Man conld jay so absurdiy concernine
the understandine. as this ofehe Bistop, che judsemene or ehe
understandins isnoc alivaies practice practicum. AConM
ery Man vill actenomledee there is jndeement in Mlen, but mill
as soon say the indeement ofthe judrement, as the judeement of
the understandine. And is practice peacticum hadbeen sense,
he mighe have made a sise to put it into Enelist. Muchmore
follometh of this staff.
b Latiy, Whereas he Caict, that the nature of Electi-
on doth consist in follomine our bopes and fears, L Cannoc Due
oblerre chacchere is not one mord of Are inchis wholetrea-
eile which he ulech in cherishe sense. Phope ic docho nOE
proceed ouc oE an affectarion oF singularies, nor oue ot à
COnECMDE OF FOrEE WriTEES, _C.
Femishehave said, chere is noc a mord of Parson, nor Non.
Tenle; and charit proceedeth from an affectation of truth, and
contempt of metaphysical rriters, and a desire to reduce into
frame the Cearnine which they have consounded and disor-
dered.
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Necessitu and Flection miche stand rocether, and instance Numb. 8.
inthe actions of Children, Fooles, and bruce Beasts, nhose
fancies L mighe say, are necessitated and determined toone: be-
fore these his proofsont of Scripenre he desires 10 prevent that in-
stance; andiberefore sages, that the actins of chilaren, fooles,
mad. men, and beasts are indecd determined, bisi that they pro-
ceed not froni election, nor from free; but from spontancons
AgentS. Asforexample that the Bec mhenit maketh honer
does