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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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DheHed OF 2 Pet. 3. 3. Who neither beliere, charcherejo
Godor Ansels, ox chatcher hare a Sout, bur onty as tale, 1
tcex cheir Bodies trom purrifaction; 50 I con by BOmeans
altene unto him, in etrac which sollores, hac is eo say, cHat
he hach prored, rhac Liberey and Necessier oF ehe tame hine
mayconsistrogeclier, chatis, a liberey ot exereise wietr a ne-
celliey ot exereise; or a liberey os specitication, with a necel-
ser of specification. Those actions itrich tre Caith are necessi-
cated by paltion, are For ehe most pare dictared by reason, eju
eler ereili, or apparenety righe, and resolred by ehie wisl it PelE.
Buric rroubles him chatP Car, ehae Ciod and chegood Angels
ace more Pree chan menincentively in ehe degrec ot Ercedon,
Buc noc exrenstrely in ehe lacirude ofche object, accordins eo
aliberey oPexereise, buenoc ot specitrearion, Whieh he Paicti,
areno distinctions, bue cearms invented eo corer isriorance.
Good words. Doch he onelr sec3 Are all orer men RarH
blinde Byhisfarour, chey are erue and necessary distincti.
Ons; And ifhe alone de noc conceirethem, ic is becaus di-
Rinctions, 25 all octier chings have cheix Fates, accordingro
ehe capacicies or prejudices ot cheir Readers. Bue he urgect
eroreasons, Oneheat; saith he, may be more intensive ehan
another, but not one liberry than anortier. Why nOE, lmonder s
Nochins is more proper eo a man than realon, pet a Manis
more racional ehan a child, and one man more rarionall chan
anocher thacis, in respect ofcheule and exercise oFreaIOn: AS
ehere are degrees ot underkandins. Portiere are ot liberev:
The g00d Ansels hare cleerer underttandines chan ve, and
they are nor hindred mich passions as me, and by consequence,
chey hare more usc ofliberer chane. (f) His secondrealon
is Flethat can de rhat heilt, bathalt liberry, and He that
cannor do rhat he wilt, hartsno liberry. IF chis be erue, een
Hre are no degrees ofliberes indeed. Buc etlis Whiek he callS
liberey, isracher an Omniporence etion a liberey, eo do WHae-
Toerer he wilt. Aman is FrCCEOMOOL, Or nOEIO MHOOE, al
choushhe carinorhiertiemhrire, wtienberer he vould. We
do so0d Frecly, buc wich more disticuler and reluctacion chan
ehe sood Spiries. Themorerarional, and ehe lels sensual eHe
nillis, ehie srearer ishe desree ot liberer. His ocher excep-
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