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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 254, page id 1030877386:0254
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(b) TOF wtrich I save then chreereasons, one Was, thac
actionsmaz De so egually circumscantiaced, chat reasOn CaNNOL
sire a posicire sencence, buc leares cheelection to liberty or
chance. TOchis he ansivers noc a word. ) There Was noncedof
ansiver, for he hath very often inthis discourse contradicted it him-
self, in that he maketh Reason eo be the erue root ot liberer,
and men co hare more or lesse liberey as cher hare more or
lesse ReaIOn. Hlom then can a manleare that to liberey when
bis Pcason can civeno sentence. And for his leavine it to chance,
if by chance le mean that rhich hath no causes, he destroreth Pro-
vidence, and if he mean that rhich hath causes, but untnonn to
us, he leavethit tonce ssity. Besides, it is false chac actious may
bes0 equally circumstanciaced, chat Reo son cannor sive a po-
fcire sentence. Por thouch in the thines to be electe d there may
be an exact equaliry,  et there may becircumstances in lim that
is to elect, tomake him re solve upon thar of rhe rno rhich he consia
dereth for the present, andto breale of all farther deliberation for
this cause, ehas hemust not (touse bis ovn instance) by spendine
time in vain apply neither ofthe plaisters, which the Chirureion
sives him, 10 his mound. Another of his reasons mas, because
Reoson doch noc weish every indiridual action to che vrter-
moltsrain. True; Dut does it therefore follom, a man cives no
sentence? The il therefore may follon the dictare os the jude-
menc, rhether the manmeich, or noc mcich all that michibe
veiched. His third reason mas becouse Pastions and Afections
Tometime prevail asainst Judsmene. Iconfesse they prevail often
aeainst Wisdome, nhichis it he means here by Tudsmene. But
ther prevail not acainst the dictare ofche understandins, which
he enovs is the meanine of Judsment in this place. And the Wil
of a passi onate andpecviss fool, doth no lesse follon the dictate of
that lirele understanding hehath, then the Wil of the misest man
follemethhis misedome.
(C) THe explainech the sense oFthe aserrion by thecom-
parilon ofche last feacher, wheremith he Peems to be delighted, iso
secins he uleth ic non thesecond eime. Buc lec him like it a5
he Wil, ic is improper, For chree ReaTOnS.) T0 methis compari-
son seemeth very proper, andtheretore. I made no scruple, (thonch
not much delichred vithit, as beins no nem comparison) touse it
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