The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

And therefore the intricate controversies about the liberty of the humane will, lye out of our way, and need not give us any trouble.

'Tis out of question that this Liberty consists not (what ever may be said of any other) in an equal propension to good or evil, nor in the wills independency on the practical understanding; nor in a various, uncertain mutability, or inconstancy; nor is it such as is opposed to all necessity, 'tis not a liberty from the government of God^* nor from a determination to the simply best, and most eligible Objects.

1. *Which is a no more desirable state than that which I remember the Historian tells us was the condition of the Armenians, who having cast off the government that was over them, became Incerti, se•utique & •àgis sine domino quam in liber•ate Tacit. An. l. 2.

But it is a liberty from the servitude of sin; from the seduction of a misguided Judgment; and the allurement of any ensnaring, forbidden Objects, consisting in an unbounded amplitude ⟨p. 138⟩and enlargedness of soul towards God, an indetermination to any inferior good, resulting ^*from an entire subjection to the divine will; a submission to the order of God; and steady adherence to him. And unto which the many descriptions and elogies agree most indisputably, which from sundry Authors are congested together by Gibieuf,