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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Actions and their Flection proceed, may have necessary causes;
acainst which he bath never ret said any thine. Fhas Whichfol
loveth immediarely, is not offeredas a proof. but as explication
horo the passions of a mansurorise him; therefore let it palle, uo-
tins onelys chat he exponndeth Mocus primo primi (Which. L
underst.od norbefore) by ihe mord Anticathy.
(e) A necessier of supposition is oFewo kinds, Comerimes q
thins suppoled is in ehe porrer ofche AgenE, tOdO Or nOCTO
do EcC. Sometimes a chine sipposed is noc inthe pover oeche
ALeNEFO do Or nOFFOd0, ec.
rrhenthenecessity is of the former Lin Lof supposition then, (he
says) Frcedom may co: sist mith ehis necessity. In the latrer sense hat
itcannot. And touse bis oron instances, to vom continence in a P omisto
Priest, upon supposition thatheis a Romish Priest, is a necessary
ct; becanse it mas in his porver tobe a Priest or not. On the other
side supposine a manbavine anatural Anciparhor acainst a C at;
because rhis Aincipathy is not in the porver of the parry affected.
therefore the runnine amay from the Cat is no Free act
I deny noc but that it is a Frec act of the Romiste
Priest 1o vom cotinence, not unon the supposition chat
hevas a Pomist Priest, burbecause he had nor done it unlesse
he monld; is he had notheen a Pomiss Priest, it had been all one
10 ihe Freedom of his AEt. Nor is his Priesthood any thine to
rhe TEecessirie of his vom, savine ehat is he vould not tave vomed
he Bould not havebeen made a Priest. Phere mas an antecedent
necessiry in the canses extrinsecal; first chat he Bonld have the Wil
tobe s Priest, and ehen consequent ly that he Bouldhave the il
20vOW. Acainst chis he allede erh nochine. Thenfor his Cat, the
mans runnine Trom it is a Free Act, as beinz voluntary, and ari-
sins from a falfe apprehensim (Which ne verthelesse he cannot help)
of (ome hart or other the Car may do bim. And therefore the
Act is as free as the AEt of him thar thrometh his goods into the
Sea. Soliherise ihe A et of T2coD in bl. sine his sons and che
Act os Baldam in blessine iCrael, are egnally Frec, andequally
voluntary, rer egually determined by Cod, nho is the Anthor of all
blessines, and framed the Will of bothof them roblesse, and mhose
Wil (a5 St. Pau) sairh) cannot be resisted. Theresore bothrheir
Actions vere necessitaredequally; and (hecanse they vere Volun
taru