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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 245

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  1. (245
  2. Aing _C. When chey alter our habies de necessarily cause ttie
  3. contrary habies; Which is not to say that the habit necessitares
  4. butis necessitared. Burthices Common with him tomaheme say
  5. that which our ofreadins, not ont of Meditation bensethro (ay
  6. himsels. Bot hou doth it ap, ar, that Prayer and Fastine exc.
  7. make but a Proclivir, in men ro de what chey do foris it eere but
  8. a Proclivirr, then hat they do, they de not. Therefore they cither
  9. necessitare the Will, or the Will follometh n.F; Icontend for the
  10. truthos this onely, that rehen the Will follometh them. they necessi-
  11. tate the mill; and roh. na proclimity follometh they necessitate the
  12. proclimitr. But rhe BiBcp ThinsImaincain that that also is pro-
  13. duced necessiarit,, volich is uot produced at al.
  14. (d) LHe adds, that ve are not roved to Prayer, or any other
  15. Action but byontmard objects, as pions company, and Codly
  16. Prachers, or somethins equivalent. Whereim are two ocher
  17. mitates; tirst, eo makie Cod1y Preachers, and pious company.
  18. eo De ourmard objects, Which are oueward Agents. Secondl),
  19. EO aFirm ChaE the WVill is noc mored but by outward objects.
  20. The WV lis mored by ic PelE, ecc.) Thefirst mistate, he urceth
  21. that (call Preachers an 60. pany objects. Is not th. Preacher t0
  22. the bearer the object of his bearins? No, pertaps he vill lay it is
  23. the voyce mhichis the object, and that ve hear not the Preacher,
  24. huc his vorce, as before he said the obj: et of siclt, mas not the cause
  25. of sisbt. Lmust cherefore onse more mahe tin smile With a creat
  26. Paradox rhich is ths, ehat in all eie senses he Object is the
  27. AGeNE; andrharit is, nhen ve hear a Preacher, the Prea-
  28. cher thar me hear, andthat his voyce is che same rhins mith the
  29. hearins and afancy inthe hearer, thoneh themotionos the Lips,
  30. and other oreans of specch be his that speaketh. But ofthis Lhave
  31. ilten more lare ly in a more proper place.
  32. Mly second mistate, in affirmine chac che WVillis noc moved
  33. buc by ourvard objects, is a nistake of his omn. For Y said net
  34. Et e Willisnocmoved but we ace noc moved, for l’alvayes
  35. avoid attributine morion to any thin. but Bocy. The Willis
  36. produced renerared Tormed. and ere. + d in (n. h cort as accidents
  37. are effected in a corporeal 1. bject, but moved it vanno be- b c use
  38. it coeth not, rom placero place. And vhereas he saith etre Will
  39. is moved by ic scIF, is he had spoleen propert, as he oncht to do-
  40. ana

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 245. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0245?run=74