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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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trom causes anrecedent. And therefore 1osay as he doth, ihar tbe
cause is suffioient ro de rhat it doth, but not alvays sufficient 1o do
hat a mansond or mould do, is to say che same that I do. For
Lsay noc tharthe causerhot bringeth fortha Monster, is sufficient
eo brine forth a man, but that every cause is sufficient ro produce
ovely th. effect it producech. And is sufficient then also ne-
cessary.
() C And is sufficient, then also necessars; Ray chere, by his
leare chere is no necessary connection between sufficiency, and
etticieney, ocherwise God trimsel( Mould nor De AII susFicienE.
AI (asciency si nifisth nomore, hen it is acrributed to God then
Omnipot nec, and Omnipote ce sterif: th no more thenthe Pom reo
do alt chires chat he will. But torhe production of any ch ne chat
is produced, the Wrill of G0d is as requisite, as the rest os lis Pover
and sufficiency. And consequently, his al sufficiene, si nifiethnet
a sufficiercy or Poverro de those chine he weil not. But he Will
deal hesays se favourably mithme, as roc ant me alt this, wbich
Tlabour he saith (o much in vainto prove, and adds,
(C) TBuc alI ehis will noc advanease his caule cheblack ot
a Bean, For Aill ie amounes buc to an Hyporherical necesti.
IF it prove ns more; it proves no necessi y at all; for by FIy pothe-
rical necessiey he means the necessier os this proposirion, che eftect
is, chen when it is, mhereas necessier is onely suid trnely o (ome
rhat in fature. Fer necessary is that which cannet possibly beother-
nisc, and possibility is almazes understoodof some fut. re time. But
secins hegranceth so favourably that sufficient causes are necessars
canses, LBalle. sily conclude from it, thac mhatsocver those causes
docause, are nec. Pary antecedently. For if the necessity of the thine
produced, nhenproduced, be in the same instant of time, rithche
existence of irs immediate cause, then al orhat immediate cause
mas inthe same instant with the cause by rhich it mas immediately
produced; the same may besaid of the cause of this cause, and so
bacemard eternally: from rehence it will follom that alb thecon-
nection ofthecanssoi any effect from the becinnins of the Worid,
vere altogether existent in one and thesame instant, and conse-
quemby all the rime fromthe becinninz of the World or from Lter-
niry tothis day is but ove instant, or a Nunc ctans, Which he knoWs.
byehis sime is not s0.