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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 193, page id 1030877386:0193
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LasIV, chey Cay, cheScoieks did cale aray siberry ane con.
cinsence, buc chey admic ic; Pansiver, WHaE liberey Or Con-
cinsence was ic chey admie, bue a ticular liberry, and an emper
Madon oE concinsence, Who do protess stiAy, thac allacti
ons and erenes wtich cictier are or lhalI De, cannot but be, nOr
can be ocherwile, after any ocher manner, in any other Place
Time, Number; Oider, Measure, ror coany orter end than
cheyare, and chac inrespect of. 60d, dererminins chemto
one; Whac a poor ridiculous liberer, or concingence is chis :
Secondiy, cher distinsuicti between che firk cause, and the
second caules chey Pav, clac in respect ofthe second causes
mans chinss are Free, bur in respect oF the Arst cause, aII chinss
are necessary. Tls antiver may De TaRen aWay EVO WareS.
FirH, Po contraries Mall De crue cogecher; The lame chins L.
ae che Pame rime MaII De decermined to one, and noc decer-
mined eo onc; chelame chins ac che Pame eime must necessa-
rily be, and vet may nocbe. Perhaps. cher ill Par, noc in
thelame respect. But chat which Arikes ac che rooc of chis
queltionis this, TFallchie causes vere onelu collaceral, chis
exception mishr hare lome colour, buc where allche caules
beins joined cogerher, and subordinace one co arocher, do
make buc onecorall cause, if any one cause (much more the
First) inche wholeseries, or subordinarion oF canses bene-
cellary, ic decermines che resc, and withoue donbe, makes che
effect necessary; Necesticy or Liberey is noc robe esteemed
tromone cause, bur trom all ehe causes iorned ensecher. IF
one link in a chain be Fas, ic Fastens all ehe rest.
Secondly, lvould hiare them cellme Whecher thie second 2
caules De prederermined by the Arst cause or nOc; TFic be de.
termined, chenche effect is necellarr, eren in respect oF the se-
condenuses; TFche second cause De not derermined, hou is
eheeffect decermined, ehe second cause remainina underermi
ned: Nochins ean sire chac eo anocher wtich IE BaCH NOF IE
SelE. BuE CaV chey, nerertheless the porver or taculer remai-
nech Frec. True, buenoc in order cothe act, ific De once de-
termined. Teis tree, in sensit diviso, Duc nOc in sensut composit,
When a man holds a bird Fast inhishand, is Me cheretore Free
eo Aie ihere Me will, because Me hach urinss? Or a man
impri