The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 208

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2. umarertions upon che Bih ops
3. Reply. Numb. XIZ.
4. (a)T Elis provosition, the r ill is Frec, may be underttood in
5. cvo senses; Ficher chac cheWillis nor compelled, or
6. that che Will is noc alvares necessiraced, _cc. Theformer
7. sense, chac che Willis noe compelled, is acknowledsed B) 2II
8. the morid, a5 a cruch undeniable. Lnever (aid the Will is com-
9. Pelled, but de acree mith the rest of the Worid in grantins that it
10. is noc compelled. Tris an absurdt specch to say it is compelled,
11. but not to say it is necessitated, or a necessary effect of sorne cause.
12. Wrhen the fire beateth, it doth not compell heate; (0 lihe-
13. Wise when some cause makeththe wil ro any thine, it doth not
14. compell it. Mlans thines may compel a mante do an Action in
15. praducine theWill; huc that is not a compelline of the WVIII, buE
16. of thoman. Z hat mhich Lcall necessiration, is the effectine and
17. creacine of that Wrill mhich mas nor before, not a compellinq of a
18. ill already existent. The necessivation or C reation of the Will.
19. is ehe same thine voith ehe compulsion ofrhe man. (avine that me
20. commontruse ihe mord compulsion, in those Aorions ehich prosced
21. from terrour. And chereforo ebis distincrion, isof no use; and
22. ehar ravine mhich follonsth immediarelr afcer it, is nochine ro
23. thequestion, Whecher ehe Will DeFree, thonchit be to the questi-
24. on Whecher cheman DeFrec.
25. (b) TFirc, he errech in ehiis, eo chinkethae actions procee.
26. dins trom fear are properly compulsory actions, which in
27. eruehr are noc onels Voluncary, buc Frec actions.) Lnever said
28. nor doubred, bus sueh actions mere both Voluncary and free; Por
29. he that dothany thine for fear, thonch he say eruely, he Was
30. compelledtoit, y et we deny not thar he had Election to do or not to
31. do and consequently rhat he vas a Voluntary and frec AGen.
32. Dut this binders not bur that the terrour mishe be a necessary canse
33. ofhis Flection, of that hich othermise he mould not have. F. lecred,
34. antesse some other porent cause made it necessary. he Bonld elect
35. the contrany. And therefore in the samestrip, in che same storm.
36. one man may be necessitatedrs throm his sonds over. board, and
37. another

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