The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

For if God only move us Physically, there is neither virtue nor vice, good nor evil, in a moral sense: But what God moveth a man to, that he will do, and what he doth not move him to, he will not do; and so there being only motion and no motion, action and no action, there will be no Duty and no obligation, and so no Moral good or evil.

§. 5. II. If God should Rule us only by Physical motion, and not by Laws, he should not rule man as man, according to his Nature: But God doth rule man according to his Nature: Therefore not only by Physical motion.

Otherwise Man should not differ from Inanimates and Bruits.¹ A stone is to be moved Physically, and a Brute by the necessitating objects of sense: But Man hath Reason, which they have not, and he is a free Agent: And therefore though God concur to his Physical motion as such, ⟨p. 45⟩yet he must move him as Rational, by such objects, and such proposals, and arguments, and means, as are suited to Reason. By presenting things absent to his understanding, to prevail against the sense of things present; and by teaching him to prefer greater things before lesser; and by showing him the commodity and discommodity, which should move him; God would not have made him Rational, if he would not have Governed him accordingly.

Otherwise Man should not differ from Inanimates and Bruits.¹ A stone is to be moved Physically, and a Bruit by the necessitating objects of sense: But Man hath Reason, which they have not, and he is a free Agent: And therefore though God concurr to his Physical motion as such,