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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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dain soever it be, is to be taben for deliberation, because it is
supposed, heonchr rohave considered and compared his intend-
ed action with the Lam; ihen nevertheless that suddain and
indeliberate action mas truly voluntary.
Another contraduction which he finds istbis, that havine
undertahen toproove chac Chiidren betore chey have che ule
ot realon do deliberare and elect, I say by andby afcer a
Child may be lorouns as +o do wtrac he doch wichour all deli-
Deration. Ipet sec no contradictionbere; for a Child may
besoyonns asthatrhe appetite rbereof is its first appecite, but
aftermard and ofien before ic come to have theuse of reason
may eleEt one thine and retuse another, and consider ibe conse-
quences of what it is abont to do. And why not as weas Beasts,
Which never bave theuse of rea(on d for ther deliberate as
mendo. For thonghmen and beasts do differ in many things
verymuch, get chey differ not in the nature of their delibera-
tion. A man can reckon by mords of generat signification.
male propositions, and syllocismes, aud compute in numbers,
maenitudes, proportions, and othen thines computable; rhieh
beine donc by ihe advantase of languase; and merds of general
Conifications, abcast thac hath vot languase oannot do, nor a
man that hathlanenare, is hemisplace Et. C mords, tbat are
hisconnters. Fromhence totheendof this Number, he dis-
coursethacain of Spontancier, and hor it is in Children, mad
Men and Beasts; Wbich as Ybetore resolved F Will not mea-
ale mith; let the Reader thinte and judee os it as he plea-
seth.
Fcondly, 2 cheyWhomighe hare done, aud moy doma-
ny chines which chey leare undone; And chey wholcare
undone many chines Wwhieh cher mishe do, are neirher com-
Delled nornecsicated eo do Wtiac chepdo, buc have crue li-
Derer. Bac we mishe do many chings wtrich Wve donoc, ond
We do many chines which wemishe leare undone, as is plain,
FKInS. 3. TT. Because thon hast astedthis thine; and hast
notasted sor thy setflone lise, neither hast asteed riches for
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