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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 233, page id 1030877386:0233
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porver eo refuse what he ils, and eo suspend his omn apperite;
for to refuse rhat one willeth imply eth a contradiction; th. whict
also is made muchmore absurd by his expression; for hesaith, the
Will bath pover to refuse rhat it Wils, and eo suspend its orn
Apperire, mhereas ehe NVIII, and che Villins, and ehe Appecice
is the same thine. Ile adds that eren che burnine ofche fire, it
ic De considered, as ic is inrested wich all parricular circum
stances, is noc so necectar an Action as T. FI. imasineth.
Tle doth not suffcienely understand ohat Limarine. For Lima-
sine, thatofthe fire wtich sall burn tive lundred rears hence, L
maytruly say nov, it sallburn necessarily; and os that vohict Ball
nt burn then. (for fire may sometimes not burnthe combustible
marter chcovn inte it, as in the case of the three Chilaren) that it
is necessary it sall not burn.
(m) (Tuo chines are required eo matie an L.fect necessa-
xy. First, chac ic be produced b a necessary couse, _ec. Se-
condlv, chacic be necellarily produced, ecc.) T0this Ysay no-
thine butchat l’understand nor ho a cause can be necessary, and
the Fffect not be necessarilys produced.
(n) TM, second reason apainst chis distinction of Liberey
From compultion, buc noc trom necellirarion, isnem, and de-
monstraces cleeriy, chac to necesticare che Wil by a Pivsicol
neceslier, isro compel theWil, lo Far asthe Wil is capabie ot
compulsion; and chac he, wtro doch necellicare che Wil cO
eril atcer et ac manner, is cheerue couse oF evil, _c.) By iis
second reasen, which hesars is nem and demonstrates, exc. Ican-
not find what reason le means; for rhere arebut rvo, whereof ele
later is in thes. Words; Secondy, eo rip up theborcom otchis
Dusiness, this I eake coberhe clear resolurion ofthe Schoolss
There is a double Act oFche Wil, the one more remore called
Imperatus, Cc. The ocher Actis nearer, called Actus F lici-
tus, 8C. But Tdorbt nhether this beit hemeans or no. For chis
beine the resolution ofthe Schools, is notnev; and beine a distin-
ciion onely, is no demonstration; thonsh perhaps he may usethe
vord demonstrarion, as every unlearne d man non a days docs, t0
Cenifie any Nronment ofbisomn. As for the dstinction it sels,
becanserheterms are Larine, and neveruse d by any Author of che
Latine tongue, eo Ben their impertinence, Lexpounded them in
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