1p17c2.md (262B)
1 It follows: 2. That God is the sole free 2 cause. For God alone exists by the sole necessity of his nature 3 (by Prop. xi. and Prop. xiv., Coroll. i.), and acts by the sole 4 necessity of his own nature, wherefore God is (by Def. vii.) the 5 sole free cause. Q.E.D. 6 7