A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of…

Here let it be observed, how plainly and peremptorily it is asserted, that the greatest Good proposed, and the greatest Evil threatened, when equally believed and reflected on, is sufficient to engage the Will to choose the Good, and refuse the Evil, and is that alone which doth move the Will to choose or to refuse; and that it is contradictory to it self, to suppose otherwise; and therefore must of Necessity be false; and then what we do really believe to be our chiefest Good will still be chosen, and what we apprehend to be the worst of Evils, will, whilst we continue under that Conviction, be refused by us. Nothing could have been said more to the Purpose, fully to signify and declare, that the Determinations of the Will must evermore follow the Illumination, Conviction and Notice of the Understanding, with Regard to the greatest Good and Evil proposed, reckoning both the Degree of Good and Evil understood, and the Degree of Understanding, Notice and Conviction of that proposed Good and Evil; and that it is thus necessarily, and can be otherwise in no Instance: because it is asserted, that it implies a Contradiction, to suppose it ever to be otherwise.

Here let it be observed, how plainly and peremptorily it is asserted, that the greatest Good proposed, and the greatest Evil threatned, when equally believed and reflect•d on, is sufficient to engage the Will to chuse the Good, and refuse the Evil, and is that alone which doth move the Will to chuse or to refuse; and that it is contr•dictory to it self, to suppose otherwise; and therefore must of Necessity be false; and then what we do really believe to be our chiefest Good will still be chosen, and what we apprehend to be the worst of Evils, will, whilst we continue under that Conviction, be refused by us. Nothing could have been said more to the Purpose, fully to signify and declare, that the Determinations of the Will must evermore follow the Illumination, Conviction and Notice of the Understanding, with Regard to the greatest Good and Evil proposed, reckoning both the Degree of Good and Evil understood, and the Degree of Understanding, Notice and Conviction of that proposed Good and Evil; and that it is thus necessarily, and can be otherwise in no Instance: because it is asserted, that it implies a Contradiction, to suppose it ever to be otherwise.