3 2 Of Predes`#inátión. C.By this youdeifleman : Foryou mattehim the caufeoffnmethingwhich " God is no Aft caufe of. And fo man is made a fir/[ caufe , that is a " God. For theparticularizing ofthe Object, and the circumfiantiating of t` the AEI, is aliquid,fomething, andmull have fomefiril caufe. B. The truth is, this one Obje&ion is all that is confiderable in the wholecaufe of the Dominican Predeterminants : Which I haveanfwered o I have noted after, in dneplace and Dr. hife faith, , here briefly tell you, I. That when two Objets are [ No, necefe efe is Deus beforeme, a commanded and a forbidden one, there is * no more true fit tfeticor owns Bant in natural entity in my choofing the forbidden one, thanin my choofing eondactbttL ; Vin y y g y g entm date aliquod peeca-. the 'commanded one. To hate God, and love fin, hath no more natu- ram quad non eft attar rat entity, than to love God and hate fin : To fpeak an Oath or Lye, condueibileneq, necefe elft ut Deus fit Attar than to fpeakTruth and Holily : Towill a forbiddenAd, than to NM om j nts Boni ucandt, magts it, and towill agood one. So that it is no deifying man tomake him a And ut fe ha oeasem ci firfr caufe; of that which hathno natural entity ; that is, ofanAd, not entity as Bonam vet ma- asanA&, but comparativelyas rather this way than that way exercifed. tam morale, Armt. die. And Dr. Twi a hence faith, That moralfpeciflcation of AtXs, is no true Grat. li. r. p. 1. fea.7. ff , peg. t33. fpecification of them; And it's true that it is not a Phyfacal fpecifica- It is true that the Will tion. is free ad eelam atilt 6 iaceedem, in many ht- 2. If you fay that we have aLiberty ad exercitium as well asoffpecifi- fiances: And God ma- cation, or ofContradiction as well as of Contrariety; Even to will or keththe Objea, e, g. Honey, or Eves fruit ; not will, do or not do : And in this cafe to do or will when forbidden, and God maketh the is more than not to do or will ; Ianfwer, I. The Soul is naturally. an Appetite : fo that by making Nature God an- a&ivevitalpower, and it is as natural to it to bein a&, as to a fioneto lie tecedentlymaketh the fiill ; And the Cartellons will tell you, that Anion needeth no morecaufe shonity ; that s, that than lief} é But I rather fá that Godnever forbiddethA&ion in general tf thouwde eat Honey y, g it Mall be tweet or plea- to the Soul ; but only this ofthat A&ionupon this or that Obje&, atan Pant unto thee : But undue time. So that no man ever finnedby meerA&ion as fuch, whe- whether thou wilteat o ir, he bath left free : fo ther Vital, sntelléEtual or Volitive. . TheA&ion which God commandeth that if God alto canted he willeth : TheA&ionwhichhe forbiddeth is but this or that upon an that determinare aft, he caufed all. And fo iris undue Obje&. Adam had this liberty ofcontradi&ion, to will or not confeífed that God to will this particular A&, ofeating the forbidden fruit; but not to maketh the Law, the (hied, and the man : willor notwill fmply:Now for Adam towill toeat thatfruit,infiead both and thereby maketh, ofnilling it; and of willing to pleafe God by nilling or refuting it, , had that a ftthouwofoe caufe no more natural entity in it than if he had not willed it, but willed fuch an A, fo dirde , , red, it fhall be thy fin fomewhat elfeat thefame time. andmifer : fo that if AnA&ion it fes not properly lf it Res but modus Rei 5 and ifany God would as much 3 _ P P y " , caufe theAft alfohe did fhould fay that God is not able tomake a Creature, that fuppofing God cede all in fin. And the caufe of its Power continued, [hall be the firft caufe of its own Ad they that afcribe theAA in fao modo to him, af- or exercife of that.Power, he faith that which no mortal mancanprove. tribe all to him. Bur as ',tile, Boom he ill TheGlory of Gods Works, is their likenefs toHimfelf; And as Intel- nameth it Banam couda- le&ion and Free-will are parts of this likenefs, we knownot jufi .how' cibile t For it may be , far God cango in fuch Communications. I fee no contradi&ion in it, ;bile ad to fá that afacultymaintainedby God In its natural force, with neceflary. inttritum. Sut it isnnt cibile adboom yea ad condu- more Caüf not et And if it be not concurfe, can felf do tout any finemaltima,n. For all ' is not profitable that 4. But this is all prevented by confidering, that mans Soul is never will. a mans out of Ad. Its a&ive force is never idle; though it adnot always the ends or will. And God is the Author of all true fame way, nor with the fame extention or intention : fo that to reduce profit to us. it into ad, is not toreduce it from a meerpotentia in aElum, but from, a power aging one way , or flowly, to ad another way , or more in- tently. . 5. Yea, this is all anfwered by tonfidering, that as I laid, while God continueth theSoul in its nature, it continueth a naturally alive force or, power; inclined effentially to a&ivity : So that though, I fay, that A&ion needéth
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