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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 282, page id 1030877386:0282
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sene d Can there be concupiscence mithont consent: It is the
consent it self. Fhere may be also a Zarosul concupiscence mith
consent. For concupiscence makes not ihe sin, but the nnlamful-
nessof satisfrine such concupiscence; and not the consent, but the
ril and desien to proseenre that iich a manlenometh to be un-
larful. An apperire i0 another mans breadis concupiscence; and
thoueh it berrith consent to eat, tis no sin; but the desien to tale it
fromthe other, normithstandins ebat he may fail in his design, that s
the sin. And chis instance miche have served his turn, as mell
as theother; and fer consene (if he had understood +he truch)
hemishe have pit desien.
T. H.
Num. 28. L. Ourchly, that chose actions, Wohich man is said ro de apon deli-
beration, are saidto be voluntary, and done upon choise and
election. Sothat voluntary action, and action proccedine from ele-
ction, is the samethins. And thatof a voluntary Acent, tis
alt one to say he isfree, and to say, he hath not made an ena of
deliberatine.
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(a)T His More Section mighe pass wichour an animadver.
Non buc for cwo chings. Theone is, thac he contounds
a roluntary act ich a free act. A Frec act is onelu rhac eptich
proceeds From che trec election ofche racional will after deli-
beration, but every act thac procecds Fromthe sensitire apve-
rice ot man or beast, wirhont deliberation or election, is cruelu
voluntarr. (b) The ocher chins obserrable is tis concluson,
chacit is alt one tosay, a manis free, and to say, he hath not made
an end ot deliberatine. Which confection ofhis, orerturns his
whole structure oFabsolure necessies; For if every Agent bene
cesticated eo act whrac he doch aet by a necessary and natural
AuX OF extrinsecal causes, then heisnomore free betore he
deliberates, or Whilest he deliberares, thanhe is afcer; but by
T. FI. his contestionhere, heis more tree, Whilesthe delibe
races, chanheis after; And (0 aEcer aIl his Aouristies, For an
absolure or excrinsecal necestier, he is slad eo sichimselt donn.
and rest concented wich an hypocherical necessier, which no
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