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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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their assent that promise d obedience for the (avinq es their lives.
But ho then is the assent of the Children obtainea to the
Larsof their Ancestors: This alsois fromthe desire of pre-
servine theirlives, which first the Parents mieht tabe avay.
here the Parents befree from al subjection; and rbere they
arenot, there the Civil pover miche de tbe same, if ther
doubred oftheir obedience. Phe Children therefore olen they
becronn up ro streneth enouch ro de mischeif, and to judge-
ment cnonch to lenoW that orher men are kepi fromdoins mis-
cheiseothem; by fear of thc Smord that prorecteththem, in
that very aet of receivine that prorection, and not renonneine
it opextr, do oblice themsel vestoobey the Larmes of their Pro-
rectors; to nhich, inreceavine such protection ther have as
sented. Anduhereas he saith, the Lar of Nature is a L. aW
mithont our assent, it is absard; tor tho Lam of Nature is the
Asent it self, that all men sive to themeansof their onn pre-
servation.
a But his cheisest ansiver is, that An action Forbidden.
choush it procced tromnecessary caules; yer il ie vere done
Willinely, may be juttlys punistred; ec.
This the Biltrop also understandethnot, and tberefore de-
nies it. Ile mould have the Jadee condemne no man for a
erime is il mere necessitated; as it the Judee conldenom mhat
acts arenecessary; unte (shebnem all that hath anteceded, both
visible and invisible, and mhac both every thine in it selt, and
altocerher can effect. It is enongh to the Fudge, thatthe act
he condemneth, be voluntary. Tbe punistment mhereof may.
if not capital reformethe will ofthe offender; is capital, the
willofothers by example. For heat in one boby, doth not
more create heat in another, than the terrour of an example
creatithfear in anotber, who othermise nere incline d to cominit
injustice.
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