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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 218, page id 1030877386:0218
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(218)
ax act os the will; and indeed, as the will is a faculey; er porer of
a mans soul, so ro vill is an actof it, accordine to that porver. But
asit is absurdly Caid, that to dance is an act altured or drain by
fair means ont of the ability to dance; so it is absoto say, that to
ill, is an act allured or drann ont of the porverto will, Which
poiver is commont, called, the Will. Flomsoever it be, the summe
ofhis distinction is, that a voluntary act may be done on compul.
sion, that istofay by foul means, bur to ill that, or any act, can-
net be but by allurement or fair means. Non secins fair Means.
Allurements, and Encicements, produce the action which they de
produce, as necessarilys as threatrins and foul means, it follomes.
ehat ro will, may be made as necessary as any tlins that is done by
compulsion. S0 that che distinction of actus imDeraTUS, and actHS
eliCItUS, are buc Voras, aud of no effect aeainst necessitus.
N che nexe place follon cvo reason: ot mine omn
axan che lame distinction, cheone caken trom che former
srounds, chac Election cannor consist ich decermination
eo one. Lo chis (he Paich) hehach ansivered already. NO.
cruch is Founded upon a Rock. De hachbeen (0 Far From
prerailins asainst ic, chac hehach nocbeen ableto Mabe ic.
(a) Now axain, hecellsuS. hac F. lection is not orposite to cither,
Necesication or Compulsion) Hlc mishc even as well tellus.
chac a Rone chroun upvards moores nacurally; Oe, chac a
a woman can beravistied mich her omn vill. Consene cares
amay che Rape. This is che Aransest liberes chac ever WaS
heardot, thac a man is compelled to do whiac he would not,
and vec is tree to do whac he will. And chis he tellsusupon
etic old Icore, chac he, uho submits to his enemy for fear of déath,
chooseth to submit. Buc we hare scen Formeris, chac chis, which
he calls compulhon, is not compultion properlys, nor thatna
cural decerminarion oF che will eo onc, wtuchis oppotice to
crue Liberer. He uho submies co an enemy for larins his
life, soch cicher onely councerteir, and rhen there is no willeo
submit (chis dissuisc is no more chan a ceppins aside, eo aroid
a present blow) Or else he doch cncerely will a submistion and
aheu cho ill is chansed; There is a ratt difference berween
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