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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 301

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  2. mords, ehe will hach porer eo forbear willins what ic doth will.
  3. and these, che Wil hach a Dominion overies oon Ads, and
  4. tbese, che pover ro Willis presene in actu primo, decerminable
  5. by our selres, are as Wild as ever vere any spohen mithinthe
  6. allsof Bedlam; andis Science. Conscience. Peason and R eli-
  7. sion teachusrospeate thus, they mate us mad. And that vehict
  8. follometh is fasse co A et Or nOCCO Ac, t0 mork or nocto work.
  9. co produce or nocto produce, hare reterence ro che eAfect, nOc
  10. a5 d thins irtrich is already done, or doins, buc a5 a chins eo be
  11. done. For, coaet, torork, to produce, are the same thine
  12. with eo be doins. Ti is not the act but the pover that hath refe-
  13. rence to thefurure, for act and porver differ in nochine but inthis,
  14. rhat the former. Sienifeththetime present; the latter, the time to
  15. come. And mhereas he adds, that L sufsle ont effects produeible,
  16. and thrust into their places effects produced, Imust talee it for an
  17. untruth, till he cite the place Wherein L have done so.
  18. b
  19. T. FI.
  20. Or my first five points Wobere it is explicated; First, rbat
  21. Spontaneiry is, Secondly, what Deliberation is, Thiraly, mhac LLum. 33.
  22. WWill, Propension and Appetite is, Fourthly, rhat a free Agent is.
  23. Fifely, what Liberryis, There can beno other proof offered, but
  24. every mans orn experience, by reflectine on himsels, and remem
  25. brins vhat he usethro have in his mind; that is, weat hehimsel
  26. meaneth. mhenhe saitb, an action is spontaneons. Aman delibe-
  27. rates, such is his will, That Acent, or that actionis frce. Now.
  28. hethat so refecteth on himsels cannot but be sarisfied, that deli-
  29. beracion is the considerins of rhe e00d and evil sequells of the acti-
  30. on tocome. Thai by Sponcaneity, is meant inconsiderate procce.
  31. dine. (For else nothine is meant by it.) Thac will is thelast act of
  32. our D. liberation. Thar a Free AgenC, is he thar can do, is he will,
  33. and forbear, is he will. And thar Liberes isthe absence of exter-
  34. nall impediments; P1. + 10 chole thar ont os cnstome speate not whas
  35. they conceive, but mhas they hear, and are not able, or will not tatee
  36. the pains to consider mhat they think. When theyhear such mordsi
  37. noargument canb. sufficient, becanse experince, and matrer es
  38. fact is net verifi. dby other mens Arermenis, but by every mans
  39. on sense andmemors. For example, l’on ban it beprooveu, that

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 301. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0301?run=74