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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(209)
anether man ro lecep them mithin the Stip; and ihe Carse ist ist
in a libestorm beochererise advised; is all thecaules be net libe.
But thac thesame invidual man, as the Bishops says, thit et ose 1C)
chrow his soods orer board, mistt choose noc eo chrow his
soods over board, J cannot corceive, unl: sse a man can choose
rochrow over board, andnoc co chrow orer board; or 6s
(0 adriled and ochervile aavited all at once.
(6) FSecondis, F. FL. errs in Chis aI(O, here Be saitH, FHaC a
maiis then on ly saidto be compelled, celsen (ear mates hins Wil-
line to an Action. A5 itforce vere ncemore prevalene wicli a
manchen fear, _cc.) When Isaid Fear, L.hink no men can coubi,
b. +the fear cf ferce mas understood. Leannor see therfore rmhacq: ar-
red he conld jstly cake at sayins, that, a manis comp. Iedby fecte,
onely; antesse le thint it may b. called compulsion nsen a man by
force, seizins on ancther mans limbs, movet. them as lin (els not
asthe other manpleaseth, busi thisis not the m’anins of compul-
sion. Ncither is t’e Action so done, the Action ef him that suf-
fereth. bar of himtat useththeforce. Bur this (asif it w. re a
questiom os the propriety of the Fnslish tongne) che Dishop denies,
and sayes, When a man is movedby fear, it is improverles laid he
is compelled. But when a man is mored by an external cause,
therrill resstins as much as it can then hesars, heis properis said
to be compelled;as in a Rape, or When a Christinn is drann er car-
ryed by violence ro che idols Temple. Insomuoh ac by ihis distinction
it vere very proper Lnelist tosay, that astone vere compelled
whenit istlroron, or a man, when heis carried in a Cart. For my
part Lunderstand compulsion to beused rishily of livins creatures
onely, Whichare moved onely bytheir orn animal motion, in such
manner as they monld not he moved vit hont thefear. But of this
dispute the Enslis and Well. bred Reader, is the proper
Indee.
d)
TThirdly, chequestion is not, Whecher all the actions
oF a man betree, but Whecher cher be ordinarily Frec.) Is it
impossible for the Pist op to remember the question, Whichis Whe-
cher a man be Frecco Wil. Did Lever say that no Actions of a
manare Frec? Onthecontrary Y Pay, that al his Voluntary Actions
are Frec, cven those alsoto rhich he is compelledby fear. But iE
dees not cherefore follom, but thar the Will, from vhence thosc
Actions