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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 294, page id 1030877386:0294
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it is not enongh for himro say, (perecive no necessity in it; nor 1
saythy mislt have chosen anocher, becarse hebnons net ubether
they mi.h: Or not; nor to say if he had not been freciy clected, ibe
Election had been void or nive. For t ouchthat be true, it does
not follon tar ehe Llection mas not necessari; for th re is no re-
puenance, tonecessiei cither in Flection, or in Frcedome. And
whereas he concludeth, Pheretore voluncare Acts in particular
are noc necessicaced; L mould have been elad h: had set donn
What v. lantaru ACts there are, noc parricular, which by his re-
stricrion of volentary aers he erantsto be necessitated.
T. FI.
AuM. S. C Eventhly, Lhold that to be a sufficient cause ro mhich nochine
is mancine that is nee dsul rothe producire ofthe effcet. The
same is also a necessary cause, for if it bepossible, that a sufficient
canse sal noc brine forththe effect, thenthere manted son eetat
Which mas needsul to the producine ofic, and so the cause Was not
sufficient. But is it be impossible rhat a sufficient cause Boula net
produce the effect, thenis a sufficient cause a necessary cause, (for
that is said ro produce an effect necessarily, that cannot but prodnce
it) Flence it is manifest, thac whatsoever is produced, is produced
necessarily. for hat (ocver is produced hach had a sufficient canse
to prodnce it, or else it had not becn. And therefore also voluntars
actions are necessicated.
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effects are necessary; for clearins whereofit is needrull EO
consider hou a cause may be said eo be susticiene or insufficient.
First, sereral causes finsly considered may Deinsufticient,
ana ehie same caken conjoinely be susticiene to produce an
effect. A5 (a) erso Horses joincly are sufticiene eo draw a
Coach, wtrich cirher ot chem Pinasy is insufficiene ro do. Now
eomoke che effect, char is the drawins of che Coach necessary.
it is noc onely required, ehac chermo tTOrses DC SUFICICHEFO
dra ic, bur also chat cheir conjurction be necelsary, and cheir
trabieude such as chey may draw ir. IFche omner ot one ot
chese. Horses will noc suster himco dram, IFche smich have
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