The application of redemption

But if there be a kind of Violence offered to the¹ Will of a Sinner in the removal of his sin, then the Will is compelled. But there is a kind of Violence offered (for that's it which is affirmed) therefore the Will is Compelled, which must not be granted.

But if there be a kind of Violence offered to the¹ Will of a Sinner in the removal of his sin, then the Will is compelled. But there is a kind of Violence offered (for thats it which is affirmed) therefore the Will is Compelled, which must not be granted.

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I Answer Three Things.

1 When we say the Will is free and cannot be¹ forced; the right meaning is this, TO WILL, is, when a man is a cause by Counsel of his Work, so that when Reason hath dictated and discovered what is fit to be done the will out of a sovereignty of authority and inward power expresseth her pleasure to make choice of it: To be forced to do a thing is by a strong hand of outward Constraint against our inward inclination and disposition to be compelled to do a thing. […] Two cannot stand together as being apparently contradictory the One to the other. To do a thing out of mine own power, proper, and inward inclination: To do a thing by outward […]. For it is all one as to say. We should do a thing out of our inward inclination, and not out of our inward inclination: A Cause acting by Counsel, should be a Cause acting by necessity, one Contrary should be another.