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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(248)
eo discernable difference can appear between themupon dis-
Cusion. A: Suppose a Chirursion Mould sive tuo plaisters to
his Pariene, and bid him apply cicber o chemto his vound.
Whac can indisce his reason more coche ore chan to chie orher
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learins etele probable specularions wtuch Y lubmitro beccer
Indsments, Tansiver rhe Philosopher brieRy ehuS; Admirtins
char the wili did necessarily follon che last dictate ot el. c under-
Randins as cerrainsy in many chirss ic doch. Yet
First, ehis is no excrinsecal decermination From withoue, and
amans onn relolution is noc destructire co his oun liberer,
Dut depends upon ic. Sothe pertonis Hill Free.
Secondir, ehis determinarion is noc ancecedene, buc jorned
wich che Action. The undertandins and chewill, are nOE
differens Agenes, bur distinet faculties ofchelame Poul. Hereis
an infallibilier. Or an hypochetical necestiey, a5 We (ay, Quic-
quid est quando est, necesse est esse: A necettier et conlequence
bucnoc a necessier of consequent. Thoush an Asenthare cer-
cainsy decermined, and (o the Action De become intallible.
vec if che Agene did decermine Freely, che Action likemise
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FEF. fcurch opiiion mhich her jectech, is of themthat make
the Will necessarily to follon the last dictate of the understan-
dine bur it seems he understands; ihat T enet in anocher Cense than-
Ido. For he speakethas it thcy that held it did suppose men must
dispure thesegnel of every astion they de, ereat and small, to the
least erain, hichit a chine that he thintes voithreason to be un
true. But Tunderstand it eo signifie, that the Will follemes the last
ojin: on or judement immediarly precedine che action, concernine
hether it be cocdro do it or not, Whether he hath meiqhed it lone
before or not at all. And that take tobe the meanins of them that
hold it. Asfor example vhena manstrites, his milt eostrike
felloies necessarily ehat thouche he had of chesequet of hisstroke
immediarely before the liftin of hishand. Nom it it be under
stood in thac sense, the last dictare of thse understandine does cer-
rainly necessirate the action, thonch not as the Whole cause, yet as
816.