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In the Human Will we are to consider the Faculty of choosing and refusing, which includes in it Freedom and Liberty, without which it ceases to be a Will. 2. The Depravation of it: and this consists in a necessity of choosing the Evil of Sin, represented as pleasing to the Carnal Affections, and rejecting the Law of God, which is holy and good. The sinning Will contracted this necessity. Now Grace does not destroy the Nature of the Will, but changes its Quality: of Carnal and Earthly makes it Holy and Heavenly: this is expressed by a new Heart, and a new Spirit. And when the Spirit of the Mind is renewed by illuminating Grace, and the Will and Affections of the Heart are renewed by purifying Grace, the Will does as freely and necessarily choose Spiritual and Eternal Things, as in the State of Nature it chose Things pleasing to ⟨p. 300⟩the corrupt Appetites. God draws Sinners to himself with the Cords of a Man, in a rational way, without Violence to their Faculties, and fastens them by Bands of Love. He instructs the Soul, and infuses such a Principle and Disposition as is suitable to the Doctrine. When the Will is directed and drawn, by the illuminating Guidance of the Mind, to choose and embrace the most excellent Good, and the other Faculties to obey, this is Man's true Liberty. In Heaven the unvariable fixing the Will upon God our Supreme Good, is its Perfection and Felicity.

In the Human Will we are to consider the Faculty of choosing and refusing, which includes in it Freedom and Liberty, without which it ceases to be a Will. 2. The Depravation of it: and this consists in a necessity of choosing the Evil of Sin, represented as pleasing to the Carnal Affections, and rejecting the Law of God, which is holy and good. The sinning Will contracted this necessity. Now Grace does not destroy the Nature of the Will, but changes its Quality: of Carnal and Earthly makes it Holy and Heavenly: this is exprest by a new Heart, and a new Spirit. And when the Spirit of the Mind is renewed by illuminating Grace, and the Will and Affections of the Heart are renewed by purifying Grace, the Will does as freely and necessarily choose Spiritual and Eternal Things, as in the State of Nature it chose Things pleasing to ⟨p. 300⟩the corrupt Appetites. God draws Sinners to himself with the Cords of a Man, in a rational way, without Violence to their Faculties, and fastens them by Bands of Love. He instructs the Soul, and infuses such a Principle and Disposition as is sutable to the Doctrine. When the Will is directed and drawn, by the illuminating Guidance of the Mind, to choose and embrace the most excellent Good, and the other Faculties to obey, this is Man's true Liberty. In Heaven the unvariable fixing the Will upon God our Supream Good, is its Perfection and Felicity.