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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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mords, ehe will hach porer eo forbear willins what ic doth will.
and these, che Wil hach a Dominion overies oon Ads, and
tbese, che pover ro Willis presene in actu primo, decerminable
by our selres, are as Wild as ever vere any spohen mithinthe
allsof Bedlam; andis Science. Conscience. Peason and R eli-
sion teachusrospeate thus, they mate us mad. And that vehict
follometh is fasse co A et Or nOCCO Ac, t0 mork or nocto work.
co produce or nocto produce, hare reterence ro che eAfect, nOc
a5 d thins irtrich is already done, or doins, buc a5 a chins eo be
done. For, coaet, torork, to produce, are the same thine
with eo be doins. Ti is not the act but the pover that hath refe-
rence to thefurure, for act and porver differ in nochine but inthis,
rhat the former. Sienifeththetime present; the latter, the time to
come. And mhereas he adds, that L sufsle ont effects produeible,
and thrust into their places effects produced, Imust talee it for an
untruth, till he cite the place Wherein L have done so.
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T. FI.
Or my first five points Wobere it is explicated; First, rbat
Spontaneiry is, Secondly, what Deliberation is, Thiraly, mhac LLum. 33.
WWill, Propension and Appetite is, Fourthly, rhat a free Agent is.
Fifely, what Liberryis, There can beno other proof offered, but
every mans orn experience, by reflectine on himsels, and remem
brins vhat he usethro have in his mind; that is, weat hehimsel
meaneth. mhenhe saitb, an action is spontaneons. Aman delibe-
rates, such is his will, That Acent, or that actionis frce. Now.
hethat so refecteth on himsels cannot but be sarisfied, that deli-
beracion is the considerins of rhe e00d and evil sequells of the acti-
on tocome. Thai by Sponcaneity, is meant inconsiderate procce.
dine. (For else nothine is meant by it.) Thac will is thelast act of
our D. liberation. Thar a Free AgenC, is he thar can do, is he will,
and forbear, is he will. And thar Liberes isthe absence of exter-
nall impediments; P1. + 10 chole thar ont os cnstome speate not whas
they conceive, but mhas they hear, and are not able, or will not tatee
the pains to consider mhat they think. When theyhear such mordsi
noargument canb. sufficient, becanse experince, and matrer es
fact is net verifi. dby other mens Arermenis, but by every mans
on sense andmemors. For example, l’on ban it beprooveu, that