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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 322

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  2. concurrence of trec and natural Agenes, chouph cheybenoe
  3. Frec, vec chey are nocnecessary, _C. ) For proof ofthis, hein-
  4. stancerh in a T ile tharfalline from an bouse, breats a mansbead,
  5. neicher necessarity, vor freely, and cherefore contingently. Not ne
  6. cessarily, For (saith he) he did freely choose to g0 that Way mithont
  7. any necessitation. Which is as much as taline the question it self
  8. for a proof. For Wtat is etse the question, but mhether a manbe
  9. necessitated to choose whac he choosethe esain (saith be) it mas
  10. HOE Free, becanse he did not deliberare wherber his head souldbe
  11. brohen or nor, and concludes, cheretore ic was concinsent, and by
  12. undoubred consequence, chere are concinsene actions in che
  13. rorid whichare nocfree. This iserue and denied by none; but
  14. he Bould have proved, that such continsent actions are not ante-
  15. cedently necessary by a concurrence of natural causes, (thongh a
  16. litile before he granteththey are.) For what soc ver is produced by
  17. concurrence os natural causes, nas anecedent ly derermine d in the
  18. cause of sach concurrence, thonch as he calls it contincent concur-
  19. rence, not perceivine that concurrence, and contingent concur
  20. rence, are allono, and suppose a continued connection, and successi-
  21. on of canses, which mahe che effect necessarily future. Sorhat
  22. hirherro he hath proved no other contingence, thenthat rhich is
  23. accessary.
  24. (d) TThirdly, For etie actions ofbrure beasts, _c. To chink
  25. cach animal morion ofrheirs is bound by the chain ofunalter.
  26. able necestie, T see no ground For ic. ) Tr maheth nochine acainst
  27. ihe truth, that he sees no cronnd for it. Thave pointed ont che
  28. froundin my former discourse, an dam not bound to find him eyes.
  29. e himself immodiate ly cirerh a place of Scriprure thac provethit,
  30. Where Cbrist saich ene of chese sparrons doth not fall ro the ground,
  31. ithont pour beaventy farber; wbich place is there mere no more.
  32. vere a sufficient pround for the assertion of the necessiry of all these
  33. ehances of animal morion, in birds andother livine creatures
  34. bich seem eo us sonncertain. But wben a man is dixzy mith in-
  35. Auenec of pover, elicire acts, permissire wili, Hyporherical ne-
  36. cestiey, and the libe nnincellicibleterms; the ground soes from
  37. tim. By and by aster he confosseth that many chinss are called
  38. concinsene in respect ot us, because ve hnom norchecauseo
  39. hem, ntrieh really and in chetrlelresare not conrugent, bu
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 322. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0322?run=74