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

Thus it is evident, that it was impossible that the Acts of the Will of the human Soul of Christ should be otherwise than holy, and conformed to the Will of the Father; or, in other Words, they were necessarily so conformed.

I have been the longer in the Proof of this Matter, it being a Thing denied by some of the greatest Arminians, by Episcopius in particular; and because I look upon it as a Point clearly and absolutely determining the Controversy between Calvinists and Arminians, concerning the Necessity of such a Freedom of Will as is insisted on by the latter, in order to moral Agency, Virtue, Command or Prohibition, Promise or Threatening, Reward or Punishment, Praise or Dispraise, Merit or Demerit. I now therefore proceed,

I have been the longer in the Proof of this Matter, it being a Thing denied by some of the greatest Arminians, by Episcopius in particular; and because I look upon it as a Point clearly and absolutely determining the Controversy between Calvinists and Arminians, concerning the Necessity of such a Freedom of Will as is insisted on by the latter, in order to moral Agency, Vertue, Command or Prohibition, Promise or Threatning, Reward or Punishment, Praise or Dispraise, Merit or Demerit. I now therefore proceed,

II. To consider whether CHRIST, in his holy Behaviour on Earth, was not thus a moral Agent, subject to Commands, Premises, &c.—