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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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rare action is noc sponraneons. The sire considers noc Wwhethet
ic Phould burn. vet ehe Burnins oFit is nOc sponraneons. Neictrer
is erery spontaneons action indeliberate, a man may deliberare
wrtrac he vilt eac, and sec eac ic sontanconsty. (4) Ncicher
doch deliberation properiy Fgnitie che considerins of the eood
and evis sequels of an action to come. But che considerins Whe.
cher ehis De a 500d and sic means, or the best, and Atces means
For obrainins such an end. The Phylcian doch noc deliberate
Whecher he Mould cure bis Pariene, Duc by nhac meanstre
Tovid curehim. Deliberation is ot elie means noc ofche end.
(C) Much less dochany man conceire with T. FI. chac delibe.
racion is an imaeination, or an aet of Fancy noc oFreason, coni-
non eomen ot discrecion mich madmen, and nacural foolsand
children, and bruic beasts. (F) Thiraly, neirter doch anv
onderstandins man conceire, or can conceire, chiac che
ill is an act of our deliberation. The underscandino and the will
are ero distinct faculties, or chaconely the last apperi eis robe
called our will. Sonoman ould Beable ro Cay chisis my will,
Decause he knons noc Whecher he Mail perterere in ic Or nOt.
5) Concernins che Foureh poine ve agree rhac heis a frec
Ncent that can do, is he wmill, and forbear is he will. Bucl won-
der hon chis dropped trom his pen, vhacis non become ofhis
absolure necessier of ali chinss, if a man be frec eo do and eo
Forbear any chins: Will he makie himself suiles ofthe non sense
oFthe School men; and run wirh ehem inco concradictions for
company? IEmay be hre will Fay he can do it he will, and For-
bear if hie Will, buc he cannor willif he will. This will noc serve
his turn, For it ehre cause ofa trec action, charis, the willeo De
decermined, chenthe effect, or the action ic selF is likewise de-
cermined, a decermined cause cannoc prodnce an underermined
effect, cither che Agenc can will, and Forbear to will, or else he
cannoc do, and Forbear to d0. (h) Buc we disser wholy about
the sfch poine. Ile who conceires liberry arixte, conceires
Boch a liberry in the subject eowill, or noc eo will, and a liberry
2o ihe objeet eo iil ehis, or chac, and a liberry from impediments.
P. H. By a new may ofhis oon curs offche libery of the subjeet.
as if astone was Frec co ascend, or descend, because ir hath no
Oueard impediment. And cheliberry romards the objeet, asit
Ehe