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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 201, page id 1030877386:0201
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b1), and he rhat caanot, bas none at alt Also liberiy (aste says.
the Schooles caitit) of exeresse wichis as Thave saidbetore, a
libertys to do, or not to do, cannet be withonc a liberty lrhich they
caltof spccifcation) charis to (ay, a liberry to do vi not to do ehis
or thar in partieular; for hon con a man conceive, that he bas
liberey eo do any thine, that hath nos lib. rey to dothis or that, or
Somenhat in particular. I a man be forbidden in Lent 10 eat ebis
and ehat, ana every orher partieular lindof fles, hom ean he be
understood to have a liberty toeat Resh; more than be thac Bathno
license at alt2
Ton max by ehis again see ele vaniry of distinctions used in the
Schools; And L do noc doube but chat the imposins of them by
authoriry of DoFors in the Church, hath been a ercat casse
that men have labonred, thouel by sedition; and evit courses to
Babe them off; for nothine is more aptro bexethirred, than the
trrannisine over mansreason and understandixs, especiall,s wohen
it is done, not bythe Scriprure b at by pretense of learnins, aud
more juaement tian that of ether men.
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F. mto will speak wich some oF oux prear undertaters, a
R Rbout che prounds oflearnins, had necd cirtier eo speak
by an Incerprecer, ortolearn a ne Languase, (I dare not
callic Parson or Cancins) lacely derised, nor eo ser lorch che
eruch, buc co conceal falthood. He must learn a new Liberey,
anem necessiey, a new Concinsency, a nem Sutticieney, a new
Sponcaneier, a nem kind of Deliberarion, anem kind of File
etion, a new Fcernicy, anem Compulsion, and in conclution,
anew Nochins. (a) This propolicion, the will is frec, may be
understood in ewo senses, Fither chac the will is noc compelled,
Or chac ehe will is noc alvares necesticared; for it ic be ordina-
rilV, Orac ans cime frcc trom necellicacion, my allertion is
erue chacchere is freedom from necester. Theformer sense
char che ill is not compelled, is acknomledsed by all che
roridas a cruch undeniable, Voluntas non cocitur. For, ifche
will mar be compelled, then ic may borh will and noc mill ehe
same thins ac che lamecime, under che lame nocion, buc chis
implies a concradiction. Vec ehis Auchor (like che sood mo-
man tiom lier husband souslic up che stream when MC WaS
dromned.