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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 243, page id 1030877386:0243
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(243)
Another Branch oF mine ansiver Was, ehat a resolvedand
prepared mind is able eo resist boch che apperibiliey ot ob.
jects, and the unruline(s oF PaCtiOnS; ASI Cemed By exam
Ples. (e) He ansivers thac Iprore E Tysses Was nornecesica-
red co uccp, nor the Philolopher co srike, buc I do noc prove
chac chiey vere noc necesticared co forbear. He saith erue.
J am noc nou prorins, buc antivering. Vet my ansiver doch
sufticiently prore chac which P incend. Thac cheracional wil
hrach pover, boch co Aeishe chemost apperible objects, and
to concrol che mostunruly pactions. Wvhen hehach eiven a
elear Colution co chole proots ihich Phare produced, then it
Will becimme For him to cry For more work.
Lastly, Whereas I Cay, chac ourward objects may be dange
rous, buc cannoc be destructire to crue liberey. Ie cacchech
ac ic, and (f) objects, chac liberey is in no danger, but ro be lost.
but Tsay, it cannoc be lost, therefore (he infers) that it is in no
danser at all. Tantver; Firut, chac liberey is in more danser
eo be abuled ehan to bc loct. Mony more men do abuse cheie
rirs chanlolechem. Secondly, liberer is in danser likemise t0
be meatiened or diministred, as whenic is clossed by vicious
habies contracted by our selres, and vec ic is noc corally lok.
Thirdly, choush liberer cannot becotally los ouc ofthe morid
vec ic mas becotally loct ro chis or thac parricular man, a5t0
the exercile ofic. Reason istheroot ofliberer, and choupt
nochins be morenacuralco a manthan reason, vec mans by
excess oEctud, or by continuil purmandirine, or by lome ex-
crarasane pastion, which cher hare chericted in chemselves.
or by dorins 100 much apon lome affected object, dobe.
come very lores, and deprire chemselres ot the ule oFrea-
son, and consequenely or Liberer. And wten chebenetie
oE liberes is noc chus universallr lost, vec ic may belostre-
spectirely eo chis or thac particuler occatron. AS he Who
mates choise oF a bad wise, hath lost his Former liberey 10
chose a Boodonc.