Sentence:  Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them <WSD>Antecedence</WSD> and Consequence; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The relationship of preceding something in time or order.<ref>(Samuel Johnson), "(A Dictionary of the English Language)," London: W. Strahan, 1755: “A<small>NTECEDENCE</small>. (...) The act or state of going before; precedence.”[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5326809190&view=1up&seq=145&size=150]</ref>