and Free-will. I23 B. Quefi. g. Is the Will efficiently neceffitated by the fenfes or phan- tafie ? C. No otherwife than as by the objeaswhich theydo prefent ? B. weft. to. Is it fo neceffìtated by the Pallions? C. " Iknow not whether ImayJày thePaffions do it, or its ownpravity, " when thepaons do d f urbandtempt it. B. -uefi. lt. Is it fo neceffìtated by the Intelleá ? C. "so Camero and feveral others thought , and confequentl,yy by the "Objefás: But I have manyreafonsagàinfi that opinion quoad n!dia, in comparate ele Nns. But the intelle$ may neceffitate it circa finem 5`, " 2. And quoad media , in fpecificatione , etfi non quoad exercitium "aáus. B.1. Çuoad finem, it is not the Intelleil that neceffitateth, but the natural inclinationoftheWill Intelleúion is but apreviousairfinequo non. 2. Wherethere is no exercitium atlus,there is nofpecification.There- foreyou can only fay, Nonfpeciftcaturfinedufle intelleílus 5 but the Will can prevent that dullum intellelïso, if not fufpend its aá alto after it. Audi.. I2. Can anyonebut God, by force, imprefs ill habitson the Will. C. " No : we were miferable if anycould make us wicked. B. Jueff. 53. Will God ever make any fuch evil habits in the Will. C. "As ahabithe maycaufe it, but not as evil. B. .2210. 14. Doyou think that a Sinner isneceftated to every fin that he committeth, or to every Duty which heotnitteth, fo that he could not dootherwife? C. " I think he h under a neceffityoffinning : but Icannotfayitofeve-, ryfn, which hecommitteth. t B. You before granted many things to bein thepower of theWill: Andcanyoudeny that power to be free, that the fame things are in its liberty: I will tire youno more 5 but defire you, r. To .perufe all your former conceflions aboutmans power. And 2. Toperufe all the twenty Concernons ofA. Confer. 5. Criminat. I. where he denieth Free-will in all thofe fenfes, and then tell me, where is thedifference ? C. "They think that our freedom is inconffient with neceffity 5 but "fo do not we, who think that Decree and Predetermination do neceffi- " tate. B. I have forced you before to confefs your concordhere. ALogi- cal necejfitas confequenthe in ordine probationis, Arminius and almoll all men confefsdoth refult from meer prefcience. And Dr.Twiffe profeffeth, that neitherthe Protefiants or the School-men hold any other neceflity to refult fromDecreeor Predetermination. C. " But thepravity of the wickedneceffitateth their Wills toevil. B. s. Not to all evil : For 1. Mencommit not all : 2. And you be -. foreconfeffed, that men can do more good and lefs evil than they do. 2. The truth is, as I diftinguifhedpower before intoPhyfical andMoral; fomuft wedoLiberty and Necefsity. TheWill hath its phyfical Libetty;) and isfree fromphyfical necefsstation, in all the fin that men commit, and in allthe good theydo (I think) thoughnot from all Divine predeter mining neceffitation to good : Men do not good andevil asBruits do their aets. But the Will hath a kind of moral neceffity of doing evil, by radicated habits, andbath no further moral Liberty, than it is freed from thepowerof thofeevil inclinations.. But thefe habitsneceffi- tate not phyfically, but morally, and that only toforce fin,. but not to 2 all.
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