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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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commeno e deasts as beinq alternate apperite, c. nd not ra
tiocination, and ihe last act or apperite therein, and rhichis imme-
diarelr follomed by ebe action, ihe onelu ill thas can betahen no-
sice of by others, and mtichonel; makerh an action in publick jude
ment voluntary; T har 1o be free is no more then o do is a man will.
audis hie mill ro ferbear, and consequemty chat this freedome is the
Freedome of the man and not of the WWill: T hat the W ill is not free,
huc subject to chanse by the operation of external causes; That all
external causes depend necessarily on the first eternat cause Ciod
Almicher, mho Worketh in us borh eo Will and eo do, by ehe media
sion of secind causes; Thac sceine neither man nor any thins et se
can morknpon it sels, it is impossible thar ang man in the framine
of his oen rill sould coneur mithCod, eitheras on Actor or ac
an Instrumexr; Thar ehere is rorhine broucht to passe by fortune as
br a cause, nor any chine mithont a cause or concurrence of casses
sufficiene robrine it so eo passe, andehat every suchcause, and eheir
soncurrence de proceed fromthe providence, qood pleasure, and
monkine of Giod, and consequent ly thonch I do With others call many
events Contingene; and sayther happen, ret because tlcy had
every of them their se veral sufficient sanses, and those caules acain
their former causes, J Cay they happen necessarily; Andrheneh ve
perceive not vhat they are, yet there areof the most Contincent
events as necessary causes as of those events whos e causes me per-
ccive, or else they contd not possibly be foretnoron, as they are by
him rhat Foretenometh all ebines. On the contrary the Disop maii
mineth. Thar rhorr ill is freo from nec. sirarion. and in order thereto
thas the Fudement of the understandine is noc almayes practice
practicum, nox of sucha narure in it sels as to oblice and determine
the risteoone, thonch it be erue chat Spontaneiey end determina
tion ro one may consist togerber; Tbat ehe Will determinethic sels.
and thare xeternal obines ien they chance the Will do verk upon
it, noc natur. Iy bur moraliy noc by natural motion bur by moral
and Mecaphoricat motion; T hat voh.n ehe Will is decermined natu-
rally. it is not by Cods general infliser ce, whereon depend alsccond
causes; buc by spccial instmence, Cod concurrine and porrrine som-
thine into the Wilt, hat the Will henit suspends noc its Act
malesthe Aet necessat ont decanse it may suspend. and roi assent
it is not absolutely messary; That sinfut acts prosceed not from
Goas