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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 226, page id 1030877386:0226
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(226)
ew him ehe ristie waz. First, no acts, Whichare properly
Paid eo be compelled, are roluncary. Secondly, acts ofcerrour
(utrich he calls Foul means) which are Pometimes in a lareeim-
proper sense called compullory actions, may be, and For che
most pare are consictent wich erue liberer. Thirdly, actions
proccedins From blandistiments or inncet persvasions (which
he calls fair means, if ches be indeliberated as in children, wtro
Wanc cheule ofreason, are noc prelentis trecactions. LaHIy
chestrensch of consequene, and deliberased detires doch nei
cher diministi suilc, nor excusetrom punithmentas just sears of
extream and imminene darsers chrearne d hy exerinlecal agents
otcen do, because che Arenfch oFche former proceedstrom
our omn faule, and was treclu elccled in thecaules otic; BuE
neicher delires nor Fears, which are consequene and delibe.
aecd, do absolucely necesticate che will.
Animadrersions upon thoBithops
Reply Numb. XZ.
(a) CR ) Om asain, herellSuS, chat Election is ROE OPPO-
L sire eo cicher neceslarion or compulsion. HC
mishe eren as well cellus, chac a Hone chrovn upmards mores
nacurally. Or ehac a Woman can be ravistred wich her omn
NViII. Consent cakes away che Rape, _cc.) If that Which lhave
told him acain befalse, why sheros he not rhy it is false? Elere is
noc one mord of Arcument acainst it. F0 Cay Lmighe have said
as ell that astone thronnupvards moves nacurally is no refuta-
tion, but a deniall. Twill noc dispure with him mhether a stone
ebroron up movenatura y. or not. Lsall onely Cayto those R ea
ders, hose Fude ments are not defaced mith the abuse of Words,
that as a stone moveth not upmards of it self. but hy the Pomer of
the EarerniI. Zgent eho sivethit abecinnins of that morion; So
also nhen tsestone faller, it is moved domnmara by the Pover of
some other Acent, which. (thoash it be imperceptible to the ere) is
not impere eprible to reason. But because this is not proper discourse
for the Distop, and becanse lhave else vhere discoursed thereof
expressly, Y Ban say nothine of it here. And vhereas he say
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