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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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necestary, and errs chercinthe other may; for he sars in effect that
many thinss are, whichare not; for is is all’one to lay they are not
continsent, andthey are not. Ile Bould have said there be mans
thines, the necessiey of hose contingence, We canmot or do not lenoiv.
Ce) (Buc Whecher ehere be a necessary connection oF all na-
cural causes From chebesinnins. (0 a5 cher nust all have con-
curred ascher hare done, ec. Would require a tureliee eximi
nacion, it ic vere perrinene ro chis quelcion oELibures; huc ie
is nOr. Ic is suffcient eo my porpolero hare hewed, _c.) I)
ehere be a necessary connection of all natural caules frons the be-
sinnins henther. is no doube but. hat all chinos happen necesse-
riiy. Which is thac, that Phave all chis rmhile maintained. But
nnh ther there be or no, hesays, it requires a archer exarinatio
Flithertotherefore he hnons not whether it be erne or o and c0. se-
quenel, ad his arguments hirherto have bcenef no effect, nor hach
he semed aur thine ro p: ovc (ehat he purposed) thar elective Acti-
ons aren in cessicated And vhereas a licrle besore he says, that
omy Argumenes, to prove that sufficient canses are necessary he
hacti alreads ansivered, it seemeth he distrustech his odn ansver,
and ansvers azain eo the svo instances of caltins Ambs ace, and
rainins Or noc rainirs co morron; buc brines no other Argu-
ment toprove the cast throvn not eo be nece sarily chrovn butthis,
chat he does no: deliberare nhecher he Ball throm that cast or not.
erhich Areument may perhaps prove that ebe castine of it pro-
cecdeth noc from frec mill, buc proves noc any chine acainst the
ancecedent necessiey of it. And 1o prove chat it is not necessary.
that ic pould rain or notrain co morrov, aster telline us that the.
SEchiopian rains cause the inundation of ilus; that in some
Eastern Conniries they have rain onelr erice ayear, which the
Scripture (he saith) callethche Former and che lacter rain. (I
thonehe hehad knomn it by the experience of some Travellers, but
Tsce he onely cachereth it from that Phrase in Scripture of Former
and laccerrain.) I say afrer hehas cold us this. 1o prove that it is
not necessury it Bonld rain or noc rain so morron, he saich that in
sur Climate, ehe narural causes celectial and sublunory do nor
produce rain so necelsarily ac sec times, as in che Fastern Coun-
eries; neicher con e Pay (o cerrainly and infallibly, ic willrain
comorron, or ic will nocrain eo morron. Bychis Argument, a
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