The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 328

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

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 328. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0328?run=74