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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Phe cerracttallea lome peccilarcens, and ene Macter
was cudselins him Weil For ir, The Cervane chinks eO Creep un-
aer his Masters blind hide, and pleads Forhimselt; Thacthe ne.
cessitr of destiny didcompell him iosteal. Fhe Malter an Cvers,
the sanse necessity of destiny compels me to beat thec. Hechaz
oenies Liheres is tircer eo beretured wich rodds, etion wieh
arsumenes, uneil hecontels chacie is tree For him chac beaes
tim cicher eo concinue Ctrikins. Or 1o sire over, chacis, 10
hrave crue Libeles.
F the Arcuments from Reason, ebe first is, that whish
he saith, is drann fronsZ enos beatins of bis man rhich
is therefore called Areumeneum baculinum, that isto say, a
vooden Areument. Zhestory is tbis, Zerm held that al acti-
ons vere necessary. Hlis mantherefore hirre for some faultbea-
ren, exeused himsels uponthe necessier if it. F0 avoid this
exeuse, his Master pleadea liberrise the necessiry ol bearine
him. Sothat not hethat maintained, but he that derided the
necessity ofthines mas beaten, contrary to tbat he vould in-
fer: And the Arcument vas rather witharamnthan dramn
Fromthestory.
ee   anene De wichdraun trom chectory.
orthe anec wichdraon trom chearoumene, lec che
Reader judgc. T. FI. mistakes che scope ot cherealon, che
Arensch whereos doch noclie, neirher in che authoriey ot Zc
no, arisid Stoick, Which is noc vorch a burron in thiscause;
Nor in che servanes beine an adverlary eo Scoical neceltey,
For ic appearsnoc out of che Aory, chacche servane did de-
ride necessiey, bucracher chache pleaded it in sood carn-
estForhis omn jultificarion. Non in thesuccels oFehe Fray,
We vere cold eren nou, chacno pover doch justitie an
action, buc onely chse which is irrelistible. Such WWaS nOF
Zenos. Andcherelore ic adrancas ech neicher ot cheir cau-
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