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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 199, page id 1030877386:0199
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suppolirion, may con sist with liberey: Secondly, becaule 60d
ard che 5ood Angels do so0d necessarily, and yet are more
Frecchan We. Toche Arst reason Y contess; phae necessicy uxon
a suppolicion may lomerimes consist wich erve liberey, as wten
ic sisaities onely an infallible cerricu de oF che underctandins in
chac which ic knomsto be, or chac ic MaII De; Bucifche sup
posicion benoc inche Rsenes pover, nor depend upon any
chins chac is in his pover; IFchere be an exteriour ancecedene
cause which doch necesticate the effect, co call chis Free, is 10
be mad mith reason.
Tochesecond reason, I contels chat C0d and che 800d
Ansesare more Free chon me are, chac is, incensively in the
desrec oftrcedom, buc noc extensirely in the lacitude ofche
object, accordins eo a liberry oF exereile, bur noc of specifica-
rion. A liberer oF exercile, chac is, t0 do or noc todo, may
contist well icha necestier oFspecification, or a decermina-
tion tochedoins ofgood. Buc a liberer of exercile, and a ne-
centier ofexercile; a liberer ot specificarion; and a necessi-
es ofspecificarion, are noc compatible, nor con consitttose.
cher. Hlechacis antecedenely necelsirated to do eril, is noc
Freecod0800d. Sochis inttance is nochins at all to the pur-
Potc.
T. FI.
DT ibe distinction of free. into free from compulsion, and free
from necessication, Pactnomleds: for to be frec from compulsi-
on, is to ao a thins lo, as terrour be not the cause of his vil to do
it; for a man is then onely saidro be compelled, hen fear mates
him willinsioit, as rhen a man millinely throustis goods inco
the Searo save himscls. or submitsto his enemy for fear of beine
Billed. Thus all men that de any thine from love, or revence, or
Iust are frec from compulsion, and yet cheir actions may be as ne-
cessary as those rhich are done upon compulsion; for somerimes o
ther passions more as foreibly as fear; But frec from necessiration
JCay nothine canbe; Andris thar mhich he undertoote to dis-
proove. This distinction, hesares, aseth tobe fortifi: d by morea
sons. But they are noc mine. The first, he sayes is, That iris gran-
sed by all Divines, that an hypotherical necessiry, or necessity upon
supposiion