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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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tous, Whether ic be continzent also in ic selF, that is, whether
ehe concurrence of the couses vere absolurely necessary, wtre
cher ehe vapours, or matrer oFthe rain may not ver be disper.
sed, or ocherwile consumed, or driven bevond our coast, is a
speculation whicti no ar concerns this quettion. So we lee
onc reason hiy his cro instances are altoxerher impertinene.
because chey are of actions which are noc trec, nor electire, nox
such a5 proceed From cheliberey oF mans will.
Secondly, our dispuce is abour absoluce necessicy, his proots
extend onely eo Hypothetical necestier. Our quection iss
Whecher che concurrence and decermination ofche causes vere
necessaro before ches did concur, or vere decermined. HC
prores thacthe effect is necessary afcer ehie causes hare concur-
red, and are decermined The trees actions of Giod, Or man,
are necessary by such a necessiey ot supposirion, and che mok
continsent evenrschac are, as Phare Mewed plainly, Numb. 3.
Where his instance oF Ambs. ace is more Fullv ansvered. Sohis
proot lools anocher may tromhus proponcion. Elis provo-
licionis, chac the casting of AmBS. aCC mas necessary bet. re it mas
throvon. Hlis prootisthac ic was neceslary wohen it Was throrons
examine all his caules over and over, and ches will noc aftord
him one grain of ancecedent necestiey. The Arst causeis in the
Dice: True, it chey De False Dice chere may be Pomechins in
ic, buc chen his continseney is destroved. IFcher besquare
Dice, ther hare no more inclinarion to Ambs-ace, than EO
Cinque and Qiacer, or any octier cast. His lecond cause is the
posture of the parres hand: Buc wtrac necesticy waschere chac
he P0. Id puc his hand into such a posture ? None ac aII. ThC
third cause is the measure of the Torce ap, lied by tle caster. NoW
for che credit of his cause sec hum buc name, lwill noc lay a
convincins reason. nor (o muchas a probite realon, buc eren
any prerence otrealon, how the Caster was necesticaced From
wichour himseltro apple inst so much force, aud neicher more
nor lesse. IF hecanrcr, his causeis desperare, and hemav hold
tris Peace For ever. His laH car le ic tlc posture of the T able. BUC
cell us in gond earnest uat recastic ehere vas whrche Calter
st chrow incoctac Y. B. ~ reene itia ehie orter, or chacche
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