The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 200

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2. supposirion, may. sana rich liberey. That jon may understand
3. this. Lmiil sive rou an example os hypothericall necessiey. Il
4. Pallive, TB alt eat, ehis is an hypothericall necessicy. Indeed
5. it is a necessary proposirion, that is tosay, it is necessary that that
6. proposition Bould be true, mhensoever uttered, buc tis not thenecos.
7. sirrofthe thins, nor is it therefore necessary, that the man Ball
8. live, or that the mansail eat. I do not use to forrifie my distincti.
9. ons rithsuch reasons. T et lim confure themas he mill, it con-
10. tents me. But L vould have jour lordship rale nocice hereby.
11. hour an easy and plainthine, but mithal falie. mar be vich ihe
12. Traveusace of such mords, as hypochericall necessity. and neces-
13. sicyupon supposirion and sueh like cearmsof Schoolmen, obseur d
14. and neade 10 seem pr. sound learnine.
15. Thesecondreason thar may confirm che distinction of free, from
16. compulsion, and froe from necessitarim, he sares is, that Cod, and
17. Se0d Ancls do c0od necessarily, and ret are more tree than doc.
18. Thisreason, thonch Lhad no need ofit, yet Tthinle it so far forch
19. so0d, as it is true that Crod and rood Angels do 500d necessaritr, and
20. retare tree; butbecanse Tfind nor in che Articles ot our Faith non
21. inthe Decrees of our C hurch (et dovon, in what manner Tam to
22. conceive God, and eood Ancelsto morte, bynecessity, or in rhat
23. sense they mort frecly, I suspena my sentence in that point, and
24. am content, chat there may be a frecdomfrom compulsion, and pet
25. no frecdom from necessitation, as hath been prooved inthat, that a
26. man may be necessicared to some actions withour threats and ith
27. ont fear of dancer; But hon he can avoid ehe consistine tocether
28. of freedom and necessity; supposins Cod and 500d Angels are freer
29. thanmen, and ret de eood necessarilr, that e must nom examin.
30. Lconfess (saith he) chat God and cood Ancelsare more free
31. than me, tharis intensively in decree of freedom, not extensively
32. in the latiende of theobject, according ro a liberry ofexereise, not
33. o specificarion. Acain mehave here rvo distinctions, that are
34. no distinctions, but made ro s. emsoby tearms invented, by Flnom
35. not vhom, ro cover ienorance, and blind the understandine of che
36. Peader. For it cannot be conceived that there is any liberty crea
37. ter chan for a man eo de mhat he mill, and to fobrear har he will.
38. Oxe heat may be more intensive than another, but not one liberry
39. than anether. Fse thar can de mhac he will, hathalt liberry poss-

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