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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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rorhem. Ile cails it a sufficient carsse of draviis, that ther be
Coachhorses, thouch ehey be lame, on miil not dra. But Ysay they
are not sufficient absolurely; but consitionally, if ther bonot lame
nor resty. Let the read.r iudee, Whether my suficient cause or
his may properly be callod cause enoiteh.
(B, TSecondly, a cause may be said co be susticient, cicter
Decause ic produceth chac etfect whichis incended, as in che
Generation ot amon, or else, because ic is sufficient co produce
thac Which is produced, a5 in ehe generation ot a Mtonster: EhC
Former is properly called a sufficient cause, che laccer a weskand
insuiciene cause.) In these fer lines hehath sard the canse of the
generation of a Monster is sufficien toproduce a Monster, and
thac it is in sufficient to produce a Monst. r. Fiom soon may a man
forget his mords that doth n. F understand them. Fhistorm of in
Susticiene canse, which also the School casDefieient that chey
may rime to efficient, is not intelieible, but a mord devised lihe
Fioeus Pocus. 10 jucele a difficuley ont of (. ehr. Thar rbich is
sufficient 1o produce a MConster, is not therefore ro be called an in-
sufficient canse ro produce a man, no more then that mhichis suffi-
eient to produce aman, is to be calle d an insufficient cause to pro-
ducea Monster.
(C) TThirdly, a cause is said eo be surticiene in respect ofche
abilier otic eo act, noc in respect ofies will eo act, _c. A560d
is sufficiene co produce a ehiousand WV orids. He undersiands
dittle, Whenm en say, Godis sufficient eo produce many morids, is
be nierstand not the meanine tobe, that he is sufficient to produce
them is herit. Wit our this supposirion, TEhe will, a man is not
Sufficient to produce any voluntarr action, noc so much as rovalte,
Hbonch he be inhealch, and at Liberty. The vill is as much a
sufficient cause rithont the streneth to de, as the strene th mithout
ihe Wil. 20rhat mhich he adds- that my Definition is a meer eri-
ins bereen a sufficiener in a dirided sense, and a sufficiency
in a compounded sense, Jcan mate nansmer, becanse Tunder-
stand no more, mhat hemeans by sufficieney in a divided sense,
and susticiener in a compounded senle, then if he had said (ufi-
cienes in a dirided non sense, and lusticiency in a compounded
sOn- WLHLC.