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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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D.
a)Hlechird pretense was ouc of moral Philosophy milun
derHtood, chac ourward objects do necesitace thewill. I
stialI noc necd co repeat whachehach omirced, buc onelv co
Pacissie his excepeions; (b) The Frstis, chac ic is noc material,
thonch the porver of ont vard objects do proceed from our omn faults,
if such faules of ours proceed not from causes in our onn pover:
NVeII buc whac if chep do procced trom causes thac are in oux
onn pover, as in truchther do, then his anliver is a meer sub-
certuce. IF our faules proceed trom causes rhatare nOt, and
vere noc in our onn pover, chen chey are noc our Faules ac all.
Tcis noc a Faule in us noc ro do chosechinss, which never vere
in our porrer todo. Buc chey are cheFaules oFthele causes trom
Whence chey do proceed. (∞) Nexche contessert, thacicis in
our pover by good endearours, co alter chole vicious habits
erhich e had contracted, and co set rhe contrary habie. True
(Taichhe) buc then the contrary habit doth necessitace the one may.
as vellas the former habit did the other may. By wtrich very con-
Siderarion ic appears, chac thac which he calls a necelticy is no
more bur a procliviey. IFic vere a crue necellier, ic couldnoe
Bearoided, nor aicered by our endeorours. The cruchis AC.
quired habies do help and astisthe faculer; buc cher donoc
necessitate che faculer. Hc who hach soccen cohimselfan
habic ot cemperance, may vec upon occation commit an in-
temporare act. And (0 on checontrary. Adtsarenoc op.
posed eo habies, buc ocher habies. (d) Ie adds, that me are
not mooved to prayer or any other action but by ontvardob, ects, as
pions company; eodly Preachers or somethins eqnivalent. Where-
in are cro ocher miltakes, tirst. eo make sod.y Preachers, and
pious company, to be outward objects, wtrich are oueward
Acents. Secondiy eo aftiem char the willis noc moved bur by
ourwacd objects. The willis moored by ic selF. by cheunder-
candirs, by chesentirire passions by Ansels sond and bad, by
men, and most effectualle by acts or habies infused bu 60d.
irherebs che will is excired extraordinarilr indeed, buc etti-
cacioussy and decerminatelr. This is more than equiralene ich
ouward objects.
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