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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 255, page id 1030877386:0255
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255
again henchere Was need acain. For in the examination of tructs
Search rather for perspis vity, thenelezance. But Ihe Bishop
mith his School terms is far from perspienity. Ton neer bcis to
elezence, Y Ball not fors et eo examine in due rime. But Voly is
ehis comparison improper ?. First, Because che decerminarion OF
ehe Judsmentis no pare ofche weighe, for ehe uncerstandins
Weishech allchinss, Objects, Means, Circumstances, Conve.
nience, Inconvenience, buc ic CelF is noc weistred. In this
comparisen, the Objects. Means, eG. are the weiches, th: man
is the scale, the understandine of a Convenience, or Inconvenience
is che pressure of those meiches, Which incline him, nom ene may,
nom anorher, and thar inclination is the il. Acain theOb-
jects, Means. 9C. are ihe feathers chat presse the Forse, the
fecline of that pressure is understandine; and his patiense or im
patiense, the Wil robcarthem, is noc too many, or is toomanpto
ere donn underthem. Tis therefore to liele purpose that he saith
the understandine is not Weiehed. Secondly, he saysthe compari-
senis improper, because ordinarily ehe Means, CircumctanceS,
and Caules concurrene, hare cheir vhole reiphe From eheun-
derstandins, 10 as cher do noc presse che Horses Dack ac all,
uneil Reaton lay ehem on. This and chat which folloveth, chac
my Objects, AGeDES, Mocires Pastions, and all my ConCUrrene
Causes, ordinarily do onely more che WVilI morally, noc deter-
mine ic nacurally, so asic hach in all ordinary actions a Free
dominion over ic (elF, is all non sense; for no man can understand
that rhe understandinqe matth any alteration in the Object in
Wciphe or listienelle; non that Reason lays on Objects uron
cheundersandins; nor rhat cheWilis moved, nor, eliac any
motion is moral; non thar chele WordscheWilhacha Frec
dominion over ic selF, sirnifie any chire. Wichrhe rest of this
Reply Y Ball trust the P eader, and onely nore the last Words
rhere hemakes mesay, Repentance hach caules and cherefore ie
is noc volurtary; but l said, repentance hach causes, and
that it is not voluntary; he chops in, and cheretore and mares an
absurd consequ nee,  ich he vauld hars the Reader believe Was
mine, and then confutes it nie these sen clesse mords. Free
effects have Free cauies, necellary etfects necellary caules.
Voluncary efects have somerimes Free, lometimes necessary
CausCS.