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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 227, page id 1030877386:0227
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Consenetakes avay theRaDe; It may parhaps berruo, and L
thinle it is; buthere il not onely inferreth nothins, but wes
also needlesse, and therefore in a publick vritins is an undecent
instance, thourh sometimes not unnecessary in a Spiritual C Ourt.
In the next place he monders hom a man is compelled, and y et
Free co do wtrar he wil; that is to say, hor a manis made to
Will, and yet Free ro de What he will. I he had said. be mondered
hor a man ean be compelled ro riil, and vet be Free ro de that mhich
he vould bave done, if le had not been compelled, it had been some-
mhat; as it is it is nothine; acain he sars, tle wtro submiis eo an
enemy For lavins his lite, doch eicher onels councerteit, or else
his Willis chansed, _c. AII which is erue; Buc When he says be
doch councerteic, be doth nor insinuate chac he may councerfeie
LawFuIIy; Por that monid pre udice him hereaster in case be
Bould have needot quarter. But hom this mahethfor him, ot
acainst me. Eperceive not. There is a vast difference (saith he)
becween compellins, and chansins cheWil. Ficher Cod or
man may chanse cheWil ofman, cicher by rarvins checon
dicion ofchinss, or by informins che parer ocherwile; buc com-
Pelled it cannorbe, _C. Isay thesame, TheWil cannot be cons-
Delled; but theman maybe, and is then compelled. mhen his Wil
is chansed by the fear o force, punistment, or other harc fromliod
or man. And nhen hes Wil is chanced. there is a nem wil for-
med, (Wheiber it bebys God or by man, ) and that necessarily:
and consequenely the Actions that Row from that Wil are bothvo-
luncary Pree, and necessary, norvithstandine that he mas compel
led to do them. Which maketh not forche Bishop but for me.
1b CWNheretore thiskind of Actions are called mixt AAi-
ons, thac is parely roluncarr, parrly unvoluncaer, _cc: S0 sup.
Polins a man vere noc in chac dittresse, chevare involuncars.
Thar some Actions are parely voluntary parily involuntary, is not
a nem, but a fasse opinion. For one andthe lame Action ean
never be both voluntarr and involuntary. IF therefore theparts
et an Action, b. Actions, hesays no more but chat some Actions
are voluntary some involuntary; or that one mulritude of Actions
may be partlys voluntary, parely involuntary Dut thatone Acti-
on Bould be partly voluntarr, parilys involuntar is absurd; dud
it is the absurdiey ofthose Authors Which hennmarily cave credit