The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 281

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1. nimadrertions upon che Antirer
2. 10 Numb. Z XVTI.
3. (a) CC Till here is nochine bue confusion, he consonnds che
4. Faculer oF che Wil, vich ehe act of. Volicion; he
5. malies che Wil co bechelast part ot Deliberation; he makes
6. cheincencion, hich is a most proper and elicice act oFche Wil
7. to beno WVillins ac all, buc onely some ancccedancons (he mighe
8. as mell have said antccedent) inclination.) Po confonnd the fa-
9. culry of rhe rril, miththe il, vere to confonnd a Wil, vrithno
10. Wil; for thefaculty of the Wil is no ril; the Aet onely Which he
11. cals Volicion istheWil. Asa manthat secpech bath the POWer
12. of lecins, and seethnOE, nor hathfor that time any (1sHC; so also
13. he hath the poverof Willins, but Willech nothins, nor hathfor
14. that time any Wil. Y must therefore have departe d very much
15. from my oon Principles, if Thave consonnded rhe Faculey of the
16. WNil, Wich the Aet of Volicion. Fle sould have done well to have
17. Boron vhere Tconfoundedthem. Tr is true. I make the Wil tobe
18. the last part of Deliberation. But it is thatWil, which maleth
19. the Action voluncary; and therefore necds must bethe last: But
20. for the procedins varinrions of the Wil, 10 do and not ro do thouch
21. ther beso many several Wills, contrary to, and de stroyins one ano
22. iber, they usvally are calle dInrentions; And therefore they are
23. nethins to the Wril (of which me dispure) chat malerhan action
24. voluntary. And thonch a manhave incvery lons deliberation a
25. preat many Wills and NilIs, theyuse to be called inclinations, and
26. the last oncly Wil, whichis immediare ly follemed by the volumtary
27. Action. But neverchele sseboth he that hath those intentions, and
28. Cod thar seeththem reckoneth them for so many Wilis.
29. (b. (Accordins ro chis Doctrine, concupiscence wich con-
30. sent, Bouldbenolin, for chac whichis noc eruelv Willed, 15
31. noc a TIn. ) This is no consequent ro my Doctrine. for Lholdthat
32. they are inthe siclr of God. so mans contents so many willines.
33. tich monla have been follomed by Actions, if the Actions had
34. beenintheir por. er. Et had been firter for a man in mhom is required
35. Travity, and sancriey more thenordinary, to bave chosen some orher
36. Leind ot instancc. But irhat metneth he by concupiscence nich con-

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