the adequate

“+ Speaking of predestination in intention and in the adequate sense,”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“The goodness of God, as a creator, preserver, and rewarder, was a sufficient, yea, the adequate object of all love antecedently unto the entrance of sin and misery.”

Christologia

“And it is our safest course, in every affliction, to lodge the adequate cause of it in our own deserts, as the woman did, 1 Kings xvii. 18; and as God directs, Ps. lxxxix.”

Pneumatologia

“His powers of mind expanded to their natural growth, and in the adequate employment of them he found rest and peace; - for it is the sense of inneffectual effort, the striving to reconcile ourselves with an ill-understood task stretching before us day after day, that wears out the heart-life of man.”

Zoe: The History of Two Lives