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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 274

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  2. bat they are; but is deceived by a roostallom consideration, of what
  3. the mord Impediment sirnifieth. For Impedimene or hinde-
  4. rance fienifierh an opposirion to endeavour. And therefore is a
  5. man be necessitated by extrinsecat causes not to endeavour an acti
  6. en, those causes de noc oppose his ende avour to doit, becanse he has
  7. no such endeavour to be cpposed; and consequently extrinsecal
  8. causes that tate abray endeavour, are not to be called impedi-
  9. ments; nor can any man be said tobe h.nared from doine that
  10. ahich he had no purpose at alb +0 do. So that this objection of his
  11. proocedeth oncly from this, that he understandeth not sufficientr.
  12. the Enelis Fonene. From the same proceedeth also, that he
  13. thinheth it a contradiction, to call a Free Ac ent him chac hach noc
  14. vec made an end ot deliberatins, and to cal liberty an ablence
  15. OF ourard impedimenes. For (saith he) chere may be oue-
  16. Ward impedimenes, eren while heis deliberatins. Prherein
  17. heis deceived. For thonch he may deliberate of that rhichis im-
  18. possible for him to do, as inthe example he attede et hof him that de-
  19. liberateth, rhether he sall play at Tennis, not lenomine chat the
  20. door ofthe Zennis. Court in shut acainst him; per it is no impedi-
  21. ment tohim thar the door is sut, till he have a will eo play, wbich
  22. he hath not rill he hach done deliberatine Whether he Ball play or
  23. not. Fhat which follomethos my confoundine mind and will; the
  24. estimatire faculer, and the understandins; the imasination and
  25. deliberation; the end and the means; the humane will and the
  26. sensitire appetice; rational hove or Peor, and irrational passi-
  27. Ons; inclinations and incentions, a besimins ot beinz, and q
  28. hesimnins otvortins; susticiency and efticiency, Ido not find
  29. in any thins that Phaverritren, any impropriety in the use of
  30. ihesc or any ocher Fneliss mords; nor de Ldonbebut an Enelist
  31. Reader, nho tath ror losthimsels in School Diviniiy, nill very
  32. casity conceive wat Y have said But this Jam sure, that L
  33. never consounded besinnins ofbeins, mith beginnins oF vor-
  34. kins. nor susticienes wich efficiene, ron ever nsed these mords
  35. Senlicire Appecire, Racional hope, or Racional Fear, or Prratio-
  36. naI PasTIOnS. Et is therefore impossible sould confound them.
  37. But the Bistop is either mistaten, or else he males no scruple ro
  38. Say that erhich he knons 1o befalse, inhen he thines it will serve his
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 274. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0274?run=74