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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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ameer mistake, which sronsmeeriy trom noc ristuly under-
sandins whac liberey oF specification; or contrarierr is. A Ii
berer ot specificarion, Paichhe, is a liberey to do, Or not
eo do chis, or chac; in particular. Upon becter adrice
he Will find, chac ehis which he calls a liberey ot specification.
is a liberey of contradiction, and noc oEspecificarion, nor ot
contrarietr. Tobetree to do or noc to do, chis or chac parti-
cular sood, is a liberey of concradiction, (o likewisero be tree
to do ornocro do chis, or thac particular evill. Buccobe tree
co do boch sood anderill, is a liberey ofcontrariee, which
extendsto contrary objects, or to diverle hinds oFchins5. 50
hisreasonto proore, thac a liberer oF exercile cannor be wich.
ont a liberey ot specificarion, Falls Aac rothe ground. Andhe
may lav aside his Lenten license for anocher occasion. Iam a
Mamed co insist upon chese chines which are (0 evidene, chat
no man can quection them who doch underttand chem.
(5) And here he falls into anocher inrectire against distin-
ctions, and Scholastical exprections, and che Doctors of the
Church, nho by this means yrannized over the understandines of
other men. Wrhac a presumption is this for one privare man
Who willnoc allon human liberey eo ochers, eo actume eo him.
SelF such a license, eo control (o Magitrally, and eo censure of
FColsisnOrance and crrannisins over mens judements, vea, a5
causes oF cherroubles and cumules irhich are in the Worid, che
Doctors ot the Church in seneral, Wtro hare Rouristred in all
ases and all places, orly for a tew necessarr and innocent di
sinctions. Pruly Caid Plurarch, chac a iore ese is oftended
ich chelislic oFche Sun; (h) WVhacchen, must ehe Losicians
lay aside their Airst and second Incentions: cheir Abstracts and
Concrets, their Subjects and Predicaces, their Modes andFi-
Sures, cheir Mechod Synchetick and Analyrick, their Fallacies
oFComposition and Dirision, esc? Must che moral Philoso.
pher quitehis means and exrremes, his pricipia concenita es ac-
quisira, his liberer of contradiction and contrarierr, his ne-
celliey absolure and hypocherical, ec? Must che nacural Phii
lolopher sire over his incentional Species, his understandins
Aen and Paciere, his recepeire and eductire pover ofche
MatTeT,