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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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choose, toelect; this may be sopped or hindered by ehe inter-
venins impedimene ofthe understandins, as a cone lyins on a
table is kepe From ies natural morion, ochermile the will Mould
hare a kind of Omniporence; Buc the will cannoc be compel-
led eo an act repusnane toies inclination, as When a ctoneis
chroun uomards inco cheair, For chacis bochco incline, and
noctoineline co che same object, at the lame rime ertrich im.
plies a conrradiction. Theretore eo Cay the will is necesticated,
iscolar, ehe will is compelled (otar as the willis capable ot
compulsion. TF a Arono man holdina che hand of a weaker,
Could chereich kill a chird person, hec quidem vis est. Chis
is violence, he eaker did noc willine ly perperrare rhe Fact, De-
cause he as compelled. Buc nom suppose chis strons man had
the will oF ehe weaker in his pover as ell asthe hand, and
Thould noc onely incline, buc decermine ic secrecty and insen(t.
bly eo commit ehis act, is noc che case the same  Whrecherone
rarim Cucretia by Force, a5 Targuine, Or by amaEorY pOTIONS,
and Masicals Incancacions, noc only allure her, buc necesticace
her eo lacisty his lust, and incline her eRectua lIV, and dran her
ineritably, and irresistible co follon him sponcaneousl;, La
cretia in boch chese condicionsis co be pircied; BuE che lacter
versonis more suiler, and deserres sreacer punictiment, who
enderours also so muchas in him lies, eo make Luereria irrisi-
Stibly parcake oFhis crime. Pdare noc apply ic, buc chus onty;
Takie hecd hon me detend chole secret and invincible necelHIca-
tions co eril chouxh sponcaneous and Frec Erom conction.
Theleare cheix Fastne(eS.
P. FI.
NV the negt place, he brincerh tuo arouments acainst distii-
enistinz betieen beins frec from compulsion, an d free fron ne-
cissitation. The trst is, thar election is opposite; not onely to coaction
or compulsion, but also to necessitation or determination to one.
This is it he mas to proove fromthe bezinnine, and therefore brin-
Ceth no nem argument to proove it. And to those bronche former-
ly. Thave already ansivered; And in this plase I deny acain,
that election is opposire ro either, for rhen a man is compelled (for
example, ro subject himself to an enemy or 10 dy) he hathstill electi.
d