The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

2. As for the Will, the Principle of Freedom, 'tis turned from God the primum liberum, and from his service the vera libertas; and so it is become servum arbitrium, an arrant Slave, bound in the bonds of iniquity, and (which is the height of Slavery) 'tis in love with its Bonds; and (which is the intenseness and intimateness of that love) when Christ comes to break these Bonds, 'tis loth to be made free indeed, the iron is so entered into his soul; the Bondage is so intimate in the forlorn Will, that it looks on God's service as bondage, and Sins bondage as freedom: and hence it is dead and lame to God's ways, but runs and flies in Sins. Again, the natural Will ⟨p. 358⟩is turned away from God the holy One, and so it's become desperately wicked, Jer. 17. 9. a Fountain of blood, out of which evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies naturally proceed, Matth. 15. 19. a Forge of iniquities. [Greek or Hebrew] All the forming or framing of the heart; every purpose and desire effigiated there is only evil continually, Gen. 6. 5. all's marred upon the Wheel of man's corrupt Will. Nay further, the natural Will is turned from God who is Being, and so it's become a Nullity in Spirituals. What God says of Israel, he may well say of every Natural man, [Greek or Hebrew] he hath no will to me, Psal. 81. 11. the Object of the Will is Good, and yet all the fontal Goodness in God moves it not. Nay, lastly, there is an Enmity in the Will against God. Every Natural man, as a part of the corrupt World, lies [Greek or Hebrew], in the Devil, 1 Joh. 5. 19. and his heart as a hell sets his tongue on fire, James 3. 6. Deum ipsum (quantum in ipsâ est) perimit voluntas propria, saith one, clearly, it would (if it could) abrogate God's Holiness, blindfold his Omniscience, and chain up his Justice in order to the fruition of its lusts.