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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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duce necellarr effects; buc ehe Wil is a necestarr caule oF von
luncary Actions. P mishe deny his Major; necestary causes
do noc alvares produce necelsary eRects, excepe ches bealso
necessarily produced.) Ile has reduced the Arcument to non-
sense, by sayine nece’ary causes produce nnt necessary effects. For
necessary effeds, uniesse he mean such effects as saltneec Parily be
produccd, is instenificant. L et him consider theresore mith what
srace he can say, necessary causes don t almares produce their
effects, except those effects be also necessarily produced. But his an-
siver is chiesly to ihe Minor. and denies ebat the Wil is not a ne-
cessary cause of rbat it mills in partienlar Actions. Zbat it
Wills, when it wills (saithhe) is necessary, but that ic wills this or
that, is frec. Is it possible for any man to conceive that he that
nilleth ean vill any L’ ins but this or thar parricular thins.  is
therefore manisest et at either the nr il is a necessary cause of this
or that or any other particular section, or vot the necessary canse
os any voluntary Action ac all. For universal Actions chere be
none. Inthat Which folleveth, he mndertak eth eo male bis doctrine
more expressly understood by considerine the Act of the mill three
mays. In respect oties nacure, in respect ofies Fxercile; and in
respect oE ies object. For the nature ofthe AEt (he sait h) that
Thac which che will wilssis necessarils volunrary, and ehat in
this sense, he grancsic is out of controvers, chac che willis a
necessary cause oF voluncary actions. Instead of chacwhict
the Will Wills; ro mate ir sense, read ehat which the man wills, and
then if therrans mill be as he confesseth a necessary cause of volun-
tary Actions; it is no lesse a necessary cause thattheyare ACti-
ons, ih.n that they are voluncarr. For the Lxercise of ihe Act
he saithebat the will mar cither will, or suspend ies ACt. This
is the old cantins nhicb hach atready been sufficiently derectedi
But 1o make il somevohat let us reade it thus, the man that milleth.
may either nil or su: p. na tis mill, and ehus it is incellisible bue
false; for hon ean hethat willth at the s. me rime suspend bis
rill? And Por the oljeet he says, that ic IS nDC nece NarY BUE
Frec, . L’is reasonis because he lars it mas not necessary (fort
example) in choosins a Po, e, to cheose him etis or that day, or 10
chase this or thatman. nonla be elad eo tenom by What Aretia
ment he can prove the L loction nos tatave been necessintid; For