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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 194, page id 1030877386:0194
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Wiil, Becduse Hehach teec and a loconmocire Facules. Judse
wichoue prejudice, wshrae a miserable subcertuse is chis, which
mary men conAde (0 MSeh iin.
emprisoned or fercered, is he cherefore Free ro walk where he
X. F.
ertaim dictinctions whiei he luppolins may be
broust ro his arsumenes areby him
reIOred.
P FE. saith, aman mayperhaps ansver, thar ehe necessity ot
A R thinsbela by him, is not a Sioical necessity, but a Chri-
Rian necessity, 5c. but this dstinction Phave not used, nor in-
decd have ever beard b. fore. Nor de Tthinte any man could mate
Sioical a.d Christian eno inds of necessitis, thonch they may
betmokinds of doctrin. Nor have Ldrann my ansver tobis ar-
emones fromthe authority of any Sect, but from the nature of
the thines themsclves.
But here Lmust take norice of certain mords of his in this place,
as makins acainst his orn Tenet, rhere al the causes, saith he-
beins jorned rozether, and subordinate one to anorher, do matee
but one rotalt cause, I any one cause, much more the first, in
the whole series os subordination of causes be necessary, it derer-
mines the rest, and wirhont dobt nenheth tt e effect necessary.
Por chat rhich Lcall the nicessary cause of any effect, is the joy.
ringe toceth. r of al canes subordinate 10 the fiest into one toral
Consc. T5 any 0:c o those saithbe, especi illy the terst, pr duce ils
effect necessarily. thon al the rest are d. termin d, and the effect
alsonecessary. Nor, it is manifest, that the first cause is a ne-
c. sary causeos al ch: effects rhat are next, and immediat toit,
andihe efore by his omnreason, ali effects are necesary. Nor is
c’at distinction of necessary, in respect of the first cause, and
nec sary in respeet of lecond causes mine; et does (as be vell no-
+) impli a contradiction.