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

'Tis many Ways apparent, that the Arminian Scheme of Liberty is utterly inconsistent with the being of any such Things as either virtuous or vicious Habits or Dispositions. If Liberty of Indifference be essential to moral Agency, then there can be no Virtue in any habitual Inclinations of the Heart; which are contrary to Indifference, and imply in their Nature the very Destruction and Exclusion of it. They suppose nothing can be virtuous, in which no Liberty is exercised; but how absurd is it to talk of exercising Indifference under Bias and Preponderation!

'Tis many Ways apparent, that the Arminian Scheme of Liberty is utterly inconsistent with the being of any such Things as either vertuous or vicious Habits or Dispositions. If Liberty of Indifference be essential to moral Agency, then there can be no Vertue in any habitual Inclinations of the Heart; which are contrary to Indifference, and imply in their Nature the very Destruction and Exclusion of it. They suppose nothing can be vertuous, in which no Liberty is exercised; but how absurd is it to talk of exercising Indifference under Bias and Preponderation!

And if self-determining Power in the Will be necessary to moral Agency, Praise, Blame, &c. then nothing done by the Will can be any further Praise or Blame-worthy, than so far as the Will is moved, swayed and determined by it self, and the Scales turned by the sovereign Power the Will has over it self. And therefore the Will must not be put out of it's Balance already▪ the Preponderation must not be determined and effected before-hand; and so the self-determining Act anticipated. Thus it appears another Way, that habitual Bias is inconsistent with that Liberty which Arminians suppose to be necessary to Virtue or Vice; and so it follows, that habitual Bias it self cannot be either virtuous or vicious.

And if self-determining Power in the Will be necessary to moral Agency, Praise, Blame, &c. then nothing done by the Will can be any further Praise or Blame-worthy, than so far as the Will is moved, swayed and determined by it self, and the Scales turned by the sovereign Power the Will has over it self. And therefore the Will must not be put out of it's Balance already the Preponderation must not be determined and effected before-hand; and so the self-determining Act anticipated. Thus it appears another Way, that habitual Bias is inconsistent with that Liberty which Arminians suppose to be necessary to Vertue or Vice; and so it follows, that habitual Bias it self cannot be either vertuous or vicious.