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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 316, page id 1030877386:0316
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doube ie mishe have Been) many natural events had been
Ochermise chanchey are. And cheretore he mishehare spared
tusinstances of castins Ambs. ace ond rainins eO morroW. And
FirsFor his castins Ambs. acc. TF ic be chroun by a fair Game-
Aer wich indisferent Dice, ic is a mixe action, ehe castins oF
cheDiceistree, buc the castins oF Ambs. aceis contingent. a
man may deliberare Whecher he will cast the Dice, Or nOL, buE
ic ere Folly co deliberare whecher he Will cast Ambs ace, Or
noc, because ic isnor in his porver, untess he be a cheater rhae
cancoesetheDice, or theDice be false Dice, and chenthe
continseney, Or che degree ot continseney cealecti, accordins.
Iy as the Caster hach more, or lels cunnins, or as the Rpure ox
matins ot ehe Dice doch incline them to Ambs acemore than
eo anocher cast, or necessicare chem co chis cast and no ortier.
Honsoerer CoFarasthe castistree, or contingent, (o Far ic is
notnecessarr. Ard where necestier begins chere libercy and
continsency do cease to be: Pihemise his ocher instance ot
rainins, or noc rainins eomorrom, is nocofa tree electire act,
nor alivares ota concingene aet. In Come Couneries asther
trave cheir stari venri cheir cerrain winds ac sec scasons, (0 chey
have cheir cerrain and sec rains. ThC SEthiopian rainS are
supposed co be the cause ofthe certain inundation oF X ilus.
In Pome castern Couneries chey hare rain onely evice a vear
and chose constane, which che Scripeures caII the former and the
later rain. In such places noc. nely che causes do act deter-
minately and necellarilo, buc also che decermination, or necesti-
ey oF cheerentis Fore. Rnomnto ehic intrabicanes. In our Cli-
mate the natural causes caelestial and sublunary do not produce
rain so necellarily ae sec rimes, neither can we lay so certaintu
and intalliblr, ic will rain eomorrow, or ic will noc rainto
morrow. Neverchelesse, it may so happen chac che caules are
0 dispoled and decermined, even in oux elimare, chacctis pro-
Dolicion, ic will rain eo morron, or ic will nOE rain EOMOErOW,
may benecessari in ic self, and elic Prognolticks Or tokensmay
De tuch in chesky, in our omn bodies in che crearures, animace
ard inanimate, a5 Weacher: SlasES, 50. Thac it may become
Probabis erue cous thacic nils raintomorro, or ic will Hoe
raIn EO MOrrON. Buc ordinarils iE is a COLLnSenE proPOLITiON