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

3. When any intelligent Being is really crossed and disappointed, and Things are contrary to what He truly desires, He is the less pleased, or has less Pleasure, his Pleasure and Happiness is diminished, and he suffers what is disagreeable to him, or is the Subject of something that is of a Nature contrary to Joy and Happiness, even Pain and Grief.^**

3. When any intelligent Being is really cross'd and disappointed, and Things are contrary to what He truly desires, He is the less pleased, or has less Pleasure, his Pleasure and Happiness is diminished, and he suffers what is disagreable to him, or is the Subject of something that is of a Nature contrary to Joy and Happiness, even Pain and Grief.^**

1. **Certainly 'tis not less absurd & unreasonable, to talk of God's Will and Desire's being truly and properly cross'd, without his suffering any Uneasiness, or any Thing grievous or disagreeable, than it is to talk of something that may be called a revealed Will, which may in some Respect be different from a secret Purpose; which Purpose may be fulfilled, when the other is opposed.Certainly 'tis not less absurd & unreasonable, to talk of God's Will and Desire's being truly and properly cross'd, without his suffering any Uneasiness, or any Thing grievous or disagreable, than it is to talk of something that may be called a revealed Will, which may in some Respect be different from a secret Purpose; which Purpose may be fulfilled, when the other is opposed.

From this last Axiom it follows, that if no Distinction is to be admitted between God's Hatred of Sin, and his Will with Respect to the Event and the Existence of Sin, as the all-wise Determiner of all Events, under the View of all Consequences through the whole Compass and Series of Things; I say, then it certainly follows, that the coming to pass of every individual Act of Sin is truly, all Things considered, contrary to his Will, and that his Will is really crossed in it; and this in Proportion as He hates it. And as God's Hatred of Sin is infinite, by Reason of the infinite Contrariety of his holy Nature to Sin; so his Will is infinitely crossed, in every Act of Sin that happens. Which is as much as to say, He endures that which is infinitely disagreeable to Him, by Means of every Act of Sin that He sees committed. And therefore, as appears by the preceding Positions, He endures truly and really, infinite Grief or Pain from every Sin. And so He must be infinitely crossed, and suffer infinite Pain, every Day, in Millions of Millions of Instances: He must continually be the Subject of an immense Number of real, and truly infinitely great Crosses and Vexations. Which would be to make him infinitely the most miserable of all Beings.