Sermons preached

2. There is a deliberate Elective Will, and a Natural Velleity. Now mark, the Human Nature did except against his Suffering, not with a deliberate elective Will, but only by a natural Velleity. There is a resolute Will, which overcometh all Impediments; and there is an innocent Desire, showing it self in a simple Complacency in that which is good, or a Displicency to that which is evil, but goes no farther. Apply this to the Business in hand. When Christ would have the Cup pass, it is not meant of his resolute and effective Will, but only of his Will, expressing a simple Displicency of the Human Nature to what is destructive to it.

2. There is a deliberate Elective Will, and a Natural Velleity. Now mark, the Human Nature did except against his Suffering, not with a deliberate elective Will, but only by a natural Velleity. There is a resolute Will, which overcometh all Impediments; and there is an innocent Desire, shewing it self in a simple Complacency in that which is good, or a Displicency to that which is evil, but goes no farther. Apply this to the Business in hand. When Christ would have the Cup pass, it is not meant of his resolute and effective Will, but only of his Will, expressing a simple Displicency of the Human Nature to what is destructive to it.

Aquinas gives us another Distinction, There is a Will natural and indeliberate, and a Will deliberate and elective. The one showeth the sudden Inclination of Nature to what is good for us, as we are living Creatures; the other is an Act of Reason, as we are reasonable Creatures. The natural Inclination of all Creatures is to preserve themselves; but the Deliberate Will chooseth what the Understanding judgeth to be good, all Circumstances considered. The Inclination of Nature flees Death and Torments, but Reason submitteth to it. As for Instance, A bitter Potion is against the Inclination of Nature, for as we are living Creatures, we would be put to no pain; but the reasonable Creature by an elective Will takes that bitter Potion for Health. Cutting off a gangrened Member is against the first Inclination of Man, as a living Creature; we submit to it as a reasonable Creature, lest it corrupt the whole Body. So in the Martyrs, the Flesh could not but be against Sufferings, being contrary to their well-being as living Creatures; but the Spirit, that is their Reason, guided by