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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 322, page id 1030877386:0322
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concurrence of trec and natural Agenes, chouph cheybenoe
Frec, vec chey are nocnecessary, _C. ) For proof ofthis, hein-
stancerh in a T ile tharfalline from an bouse, breats a mansbead,
neicher necessarity, vor freely, and cherefore contingently. Not ne
cessarily, For (saith he) he did freely choose to g0 that Way mithont
any necessitation. Which is as much as taline the question it self
for a proof. For Wtat is etse the question, but mhether a manbe
necessitated to choose whac he choosethe esain (saith be) it mas
HOE Free, becanse he did not deliberare wherber his head souldbe
brohen or nor, and concludes, cheretore ic was concinsent, and by
undoubred consequence, chere are concinsene actions in che
rorid whichare nocfree. This iserue and denied by none; but
he Bould have proved, that such continsent actions are not ante-
cedently necessary by a concurrence of natural causes, (thongh a
litile before he granteththey are.) For what soc ver is produced by
concurrence os natural causes, nas anecedent ly derermine d in the
cause of sach concurrence, thonch as he calls it contincent concur-
rence, not perceivine that concurrence, and contingent concur
rence, are allono, and suppose a continued connection, and successi-
on of canses, which mahe che effect necessarily future. Sorhat
hirherro he hath proved no other contingence, thenthat rhich is
accessary.
(d) TThirdly, For etie actions ofbrure beasts, _c. To chink
cach animal morion ofrheirs is bound by the chain ofunalter.
able necestie, T see no ground For ic. ) Tr maheth nochine acainst
ihe truth, that he sees no cronnd for it. Thave pointed ont che
froundin my former discourse, an dam not bound to find him eyes.
e himself immodiate ly cirerh a place of Scriprure thac provethit,
Where Cbrist saich ene of chese sparrons doth not fall ro the ground,
ithont pour beaventy farber; wbich place is there mere no more.
vere a sufficient pround for the assertion of the necessiry of all these
ehances of animal morion, in birds andother livine creatures
bich seem eo us sonncertain. But wben a man is dixzy mith in-
Auenec of pover, elicire acts, permissire wili, Hyporherical ne-
cestiey, and the libe nnincellicibleterms; the ground soes from
tim. By and by aster he confosseth that many chinss are called
concinsene in respect ot us, because ve hnom norchecauseo
hem, ntrieh really and in chetrlelresare not conrugent, bu
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