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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 276, page id 1030877386:0276
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(276)
Free ations are voluntary; and that the Wil, which canseth a
voluntary octi n isthe last apperite, andthat that apperite, vas
immediarely folloires by the action; and that no action of a man
ean be said in the jnae. ment oj the Lam, to be mithont delibera
tion, are no mistates for any thine that be h. th proved to the con-
trarg.
(5) TThirdly, Whereas he Paich, chae some sudden acts, procee-
cecdins from violent passins, vbic h surprise a manare justly pu-
niT ed Terane chey are (o lomerimes, but noc for lis reason, ecc.
S:y reason mas, because he had time to deliberate trom che
instane chacheknem che Law, eo che instane ofhis action, and
Ouchr eo have deliberared, that therefore he may be iustly pu-
nisted. The Bishop erants they are justly p. nisted, andhis rea
son is, becaule they vere verrually deliberared of, or because ic
is our faule chey vere noc actuallu deliberated ot. Hom a man
does deliberate, and yet not actually deliberate. Tunderstand not.
TF verrual deliberation, be not actual deliberation, it is no delibe-
ration. But hecalteth vertual deliberation, that Whichoucht to
have been, and mas not, and says the same that he condemnes in me-
And his other reason namely. bccanse it isour fault that e deli-
beratednor, is the same that T said, thar me oueht tohave delibera
red, and did vot. So that hes reprehension here, is a reprehenston of
him(ets proceedine fromthat the custome of School Languace hath
made him forset the Languase of his Connery. And ro that Which
he adds, chac a necellary aet is never a Faule, nor justlu punitt-
able, when the necessicy isinericably imposed uponis by ex-
erinsecal caules, P have sufficient ly ansvered before in divers
Places, Beivine that a fault may be necessary from extrinsecal
canses, aud zet voluntary; andthat vobuntary faules are justly
punistable.
(h) TBuc if the necessicy becontracted bu our selres, it is
justly puristrable. A5 he who by his mancon choushes inche
das cime, doch procure his omn nocturnal pollurioh.) Thisin-
stance because it maheth not acainst any thine. Thave held, and
parely also becanse it is astintins passace. (for surely if as he that
asoribine eres to the understandine adoires me to say; it hatha
nose is stinkerh eothe nose of theunderstandine. This sentenve
passe over, observine oncly the cantins terms, noc actually tree
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