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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 296, page id 1030877386:0296
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(296)
Caltly, it any man be dispoled co vransle asaint (o clear
liste, and say, chac chouxh elie free Agene be sufticient in sensu
diviso. vec he isnor sussiciene, in sensu composito, to produce elie
eRect vichont ehe concurrence oFche will, He Paith eruC, BuF
Firt, he beuraves cheweaknels and thetallacy ot che Former
orsument, irhrich is a meertriRins bermeen susticieney in a di-
vided sense, and sufficiener in a componnded sense. And secins
ehe concurrence oF che vill is noc predecermined, chere is no
antecedene hecessier Betore ic do concur; and iwhen ic hach
concurred, che necesties is buc hyporhetical, which may consist
Wieh liberes.
Animadrersions upon che Anlver
10 Numb. ZXX I.
X etis place he dispurech acainst my definirion of a susticient
cause, namely, thar cause co which roctuns is wantins necd
FuII. co chie producins oE che eHect. P thousbe this detinitum
conld tave been mistited by no manthat had Fnslist enough, 10
Rnolo thac a sufficiene cause, and cause enoust sisnifieth the same
chins. And no man wil say that rhat is caule enousti 1o procnce
an effect, to which any thins is mantins necasul eo the producine
of it. Dur the Bisop thines, is he set dinn mhat he understands by
sufficient, it vould serve 10 confute my definition. And rhere-
Fore says;
(a) (Tuo Horses ioynely are suficient eo dram a Coach.
ixtrich eicher ofehem sinslr is insufficient co do; Nou romoke
che effect, chacis, the dramins ofche Cogch necellary, it is nOE
onely requiredrhac cherno Hlorses be sufficiene eo dian ic, buc
al(0. chat ic be necessary chey Mall be jorned, and chacche
omner ot che Horses mill lec chemdravs, and chacthesmirh
hach noc lamed chem, and chey benocreltr, and list nOctO
draw, buc when ther litt, ochermile che effect is concineent.
It Scems the Biop thinls rivo Florses may be sufficient ro dram a
Ceach, thonch they will not dran, or chouch they belame, or thouch
therbe never put to drair; and lthine ther cannever proance the
effect os draivine, Withont ihese neeusul circumstances ol beine
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