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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 210

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  2. Actions and their Flection proceed, may have necessary causes;
  3. acainst which he bath never ret said any thine. Fhas Whichfol
  4. loveth immediarely, is not offeredas a proof. but as explication
  5. horo the passions of a mansurorise him; therefore let it palle, uo-
  6. tins onelys chat he exponndeth Mocus primo primi (Which. L
  7. underst.od norbefore) by ihe mord Anticathy.
  8. (e) A necessier of supposition is oFewo kinds, Comerimes q
  9. thins suppoled is in ehe porrer ofche AgenE, tOdO Or nOCTO
  10. do EcC. Sometimes a chine sipposed is noc inthe pover oeche
  11. ALeNEFO do Or nOFFOd0, ec.
  12. rrhenthenecessity is of the former Lin Lof supposition then, (he
  13. says) Frcedom may co: sist mith ehis necessity. In the latrer sense hat
  14. itcannot. And touse bis oron instances, to vom continence in a P omisto
  15. Priest, upon supposition thatheis a Romish Priest, is a necessary
  16. ct; becanse it mas in his porver tobe a Priest or not. On the other
  17. side supposine a manbavine anatural Anciparhor acainst a C at;
  18. because rhis Aincipathy is not in the porver of the parry affected.
  19. therefore the runnine amay from the Cat is no Free act
  20. I deny noc but that it is a Frec act of the Romiste
  21. Priest 1o vom cotinence, not unon the supposition chat
  22. hevas a Pomist Priest, burbecause he had nor done it unlesse
  23. he monld; is he had notheen a Pomiss Priest, it had been all one
  24. 10 ihe Freedom of his AEt. Nor is his Priesthood any thine to
  25. rhe TEecessirie of his vom, savine ehat is he vould not tave vomed
  26. he Bould not havebeen made a Priest. Phere mas an antecedent
  27. necessiry in the canses extrinsecal; first chat he Bonld have the Wil
  28. tobe s Priest, and ehen consequent ly that he Bouldhave the il
  29. 20vOW. Acainst chis he allede erh nochine. Thenfor his Cat, the
  30. mans runnine Trom it is a Free Act, as beinz voluntary, and ari-
  31. sins from a falfe apprehensim (Which ne verthelesse he cannot help)
  32. of (ome hart or other the Car may do bim. And therefore the
  33. Act is as free as the AEt of him thar thrometh his goods into the
  34. Sea. Soliherise ihe A et of T2coD in bl. sine his sons and che
  35. Act os Baldam in blessine iCrael, are egnally Frec, andequally
  36. voluntary, rer egually determined by Cod, nho is the Anthor of all
  37. blessines, and framed the Will of bothof them roblesse, and mhose
  38. Wil (a5 St. Pau) sairh) cannot be resisted. Theresore bothrheir
  39. Actions vere necessitaredequally; and (hecanse they vere Volun
  40. taru

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 210. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0210?run=74