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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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time mhereinhe mas able toconsider, whether to hill vere c00d or
cvill. Ball be held for one continual deliberation, and consequent ly
the killine sallbe indeed 1o proceed from election.
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HIS PAFEOFT. FI. his discourse hanss cogerher lire a Rck.
e aris dreams. (a) Fven non hre cells us, chac a manmay
have time to deliberate, ret not deliberate; By and by he faict,
chiac no actionos a man, thouch never so suddain, can be said tobe
wirtont deliberation. HIC cells us NumB. 33. chac the scope. OF
ehis section is to sem rtat is (pontaneons. Hlowbeic he Memech
onelz whacisvoluntary; (b) So makins roluncary and spon-
cancous to be all ore, wtiercas betore he had toldus, chac every
Bontaneons actionis n.r voluntary, because indeliberate. X or
every voluntary action spontaneons, if it proceed from fear.
(5) Now hetellsus, thac those actions, mhich follow the last ap
petite, are voluntary, and rbere there is one onely appetite, ibat is
the last. Buc betore he cold us, chat voluntary presuppo-
seth some precedent deliberation and Meditation of rbat is lihely
10 follor, both upon che doine and abstainine from theaction.
(d) He detines Liberey, Numb. 29. T0 BC the absence of all
extrinsecat impediments to action. And vec in his whole dis-
course he labourech: co matre pood, thac wharsoereris HOE
done, is cherefore noc done, because the AGenEWaS neceMICA-
ced by extrinsecal causes nor co doit. Are noc extrinsecal
causes, which determine him nocto do ic, exerinsecal impedi-
menrsto actions Sonoman Mallbe frec todo any chins, buc
ehac which he doch actualli. He defines a Frec ASenE to BC
him, who hath noc made an end os deliberarine, Num b. 28. And
vec detines liberey co be un absence of ommard impediments.
There may be oucwardimpedimenrs, eren Whilst he is delibe.
racins. A5a man deliberaces whecher he Mall play at Tennis,
and ac ehie same rime che door ofcheTennis- coureis Fast locked
againsthim. And afcer a man hach ceased eo deliberate, there
maj Deno outmard impedimenes, as when a man resolves nOE
Foplay ac Tennis, because he finds him (elFiII disposed, or be-
causehe nill nochazard his mony. S0 ehe same perion, ac
che