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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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208)
umarertions upon che Bih ops
Reply. Numb. XIZ.
(a)T Elis provosition, the r ill is Frec, may be underttood in
cvo senses; Ficher chac cheWillis nor compelled, or
that che Will is noc alvares necessiraced, _cc. Theformer
sense, chac che Willis noe compelled, is acknowledsed B) 2II
the morid, a5 a cruch undeniable. Lnever (aid the Will is com-
Pelled, but de acree mith the rest of the Worid in grantins that it
is noc compelled. Tris an absurdt specch to say it is compelled,
but not to say it is necessitated, or a necessary effect of sorne cause.
Wrhen the fire beateth, it doth not compell heate; (0 lihe-
Wise when some cause makeththe wil ro any thine, it doth not
compell it. Mlans thines may compel a mante do an Action in
praducine theWill; huc that is not a compelline of the WVIII, buE
of thoman. Z hat mhich Lcall necessiration, is the effectine and
creacine of that Wrill mhich mas nor before, not a compellinq of a
ill already existent. The necessivation or C reation of the Will.
is ehe same thine voith ehe compulsion ofrhe man. (avine that me
commontruse ihe mord compulsion, in those Aorions ehich prosced
from terrour. And chereforo ebis distincrion, isof no use; and
ehar ravine mhich follonsth immediarelr afcer it, is nochine ro
thequestion, Whecher ehe Will DeFree, thonchit be to the questi-
on Whecher cheman DeFrec.
(b) TFirc, he errech in ehiis, eo chinkethae actions procee.
dins trom fear are properly compulsory actions, which in
eruehr are noc onels Voluncary, buc Frec actions.) Lnever said
nor doubred, bus sueh actions mere both Voluncary and free; Por
he that dothany thine for fear, thonch he say eruely, he Was
compelledtoit, y et we deny not thar he had Election to do or not to
do and consequently rhat he vas a Voluntary and frec AGen.
Dut this binders not bur that the terrour mishe be a necessary canse
ofhis Flection, of that hich othermise he mould not have. F. lecred,
antesse some other porent cause made it necessary. he Bonld elect
the contrany. And therefore in the samestrip, in che same storm.
one man may be necessitatedrs throm his sonds over. board, and
another