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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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SG ZIII. That Ereedom and Liberty ot
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OIrn Freedom; ther can choose the time
and Place the Deorees and Circumstances
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cald voluntarr actions, are as much Frce
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