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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 255

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  1. 255
  2. again henchere Was need acain. For in the examination of tructs
  3. Search rather for perspis vity, thenelezance. But Ihe Bishop
  4. mith his School terms is far from perspienity. Ton neer bcis to
  5. elezence, Y Ball not fors et eo examine in due rime. But Voly is
  6. ehis comparison improper ?. First, Because che decerminarion OF
  7. ehe Judsmentis no pare ofche weighe, for ehe uncerstandins
  8. Weishech allchinss, Objects, Means, Circumstances, Conve.
  9. nience, Inconvenience, buc ic CelF is noc weistred. In this
  10. comparisen, the Objects. Means, eG. are the weiches, th: man
  11. is the scale, the understandine of a Convenience, or Inconvenience
  12. is che pressure of those meiches, Which incline him, nom ene may,
  13. nom anorher, and thar inclination is the il. Acain theOb-
  14. jects, Means. 9C. are ihe feathers chat presse the Forse, the
  15. fecline of that pressure is understandine; and his patiense or im
  16. patiense, the Wil robcarthem, is noc too many, or is toomanpto
  17. ere donn underthem. Tis therefore to liele purpose that he saith
  18. the understandine is not Weiehed. Secondly, he saysthe compari-
  19. senis improper, because ordinarily ehe Means, CircumctanceS,
  20. and Caules concurrene, hare cheir vhole reiphe From eheun-
  21. derstandins, 10 as cher do noc presse che Horses Dack ac all,
  22. uneil Reaton lay ehem on. This and chat which folloveth, chac
  23. my Objects, AGeDES, Mocires Pastions, and all my ConCUrrene
  24. Causes, ordinarily do onely more che WVilI morally, noc deter-
  25. mine ic nacurally, so asic hach in all ordinary actions a Free
  26. dominion over ic (elF, is all non sense; for no man can understand
  27. that rhe understandinqe matth any alteration in the Object in
  28. Wciphe or listienelle; non that Reason lays on Objects uron
  29. cheundersandins; nor rhat cheWilis moved, nor, eliac any
  30. motion is moral; non thar chele WordscheWilhacha Frec
  31. dominion over ic selF, sirnifie any chire. Wichrhe rest of this
  32. Reply Y Ball trust the P eader, and onely nore the last Words
  33. rhere hemakes mesay, Repentance hach caules and cherefore ie
  34. is noc volurtary; but l said, repentance hach causes, and
  35. that it is not voluntary; he chops in, and cheretore and mares an
  36. absurd consequ nee, ich he vauld hars the Reader believe Was
  37. mine, and then confutes it nie these sen clesse mords. Free
  38. effects have Free cauies, necellary etfects necellary caules.
  39. Voluncary efects have somerimes Free, lometimes necessary
  40. CausCS.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 255. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0255?run=74