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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 142, page id 1030877386:0154
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(142)
bichare instrumental e0 his mell. beine. But ebis advantace
is not a matier of se ereat honour, but that a mon may speate
neglicently of it mithont offence. And for the dominion that a
manbath over beasts, hesaith ic is los in pare forche(inof
man, because chestrongest Creacures as Lions, and BeaES,
hare michdramn ebeir obedience; bue che most proticable
and uletul Creacures, as Shcep and Oxen, doin lome de
free, retaincheir obedience. L mould aste rhe Bilhop in mbat
consisteththe dominion of man, over a Lionor a Bear. Is it in
an obligationos promise, or of aebt: Tharcannothe; for they
haveno sense of debt or dury. And Tthinte he nill not say, that
they have received a command eo ober him from authority. It
resteth therefore that the dominion of man consists inthis, that
men aretoohard for Lions and Bears, because thouch a Zion or
a Bear bestroncer thanaman, uet thestrencth, and art, and
Specially the Leagneine ana Societies ofmen, are a creater po-
ver, than theuncoverned streneth of anruly Beasts. In this it
is that consisteth this dominion of man; and for the same reason
Whenahunery Zion meeteth an unarmed man in a desert, the
Lion haththe dominion over the man, is that of man over Lions,
er over Shecep and Oxen, may be called dominion hich properiy
it cannot; nor can it besaid that Sheep and Oxen do othermisé
obeyus, than they rvould de a Zion. And is e have dominion
over Sheep and Oxen, me excreise it not as dominion, but as
hostility; for ve leop them onely to labour, and tobe lill d and
devoured byus; Cothat Lions and Bears mouldbe as cood Ma-
terstorhem as me are. By this sort passaze of bis, concernine
Dominion and Dbedience, Lhave noreason to expect a very
Brend ansver fromhim, tomp Teriachan.
Tho next branch ofhis antver, concerns Consulcari-
Ons, Which (Caith be) are not superfinons, thouch all thines
comero pass necessurity, becanse they are the canse which doth
necessicare the effcct, and theneans to brine it topass.
Flis Replytorhis is, that he hach ewed Cufticienely, chat
reason dochnoc decermine chewill Phylcally, ec. Yf not
Thysically, howrhen? Asbe hathtold us in another place, MO-
ralIV. B et rhat it is to determine a thine Morally, no man
livine understands. Ldeubt vot but be had therefore the Willto
vrito