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

'Tis easy to see how the Decision of most of the Points in Controversy, between Calvinists and Arminians, depends on the Determination of this grand Article concerning the Freedom of the Will requisite to moral Agency; and that by clearing and establishing the Calvinistic Doctrine in this Point, the chief Arguments are obviated, by which Arminian Doctrines in general are supported, and the contrary Doctrines demonstratively confirmed. Hereby it becomes manifest, that God's moral Government over Mankind, his treating them as moral Agents, making them the Objects of his Commands, Counsels, Calls, Warnings, Expostulations, Promises, Threatenings, Rewards and Punishments, is not inconsistent with a determining Disposal of all Events, of every Kind, throughout the Universe, in his Providence; either by positive Efficiency, or Permission. Indeed such an universal, determining Providence, infers some Kind of Necessity of all Event•; such a Necessity as implies an infallible previous Fixedness of the Futurity of the Event: But no other Necessity of moral Events, or Volitions of intelligent Agents, is needful in order to this, than moral Necessity; which does as much ascertain the Futurity of the Event, as any other Necessity. But, as has been demonstrated, such a Necessity is not at all repugnant to moral Agency, and the reasonable Use of Commands, Calls, Rewards, Punishments, &c. Yea, not only are Objections of this Kind against the Doctrine of an universal determining Providence, removed by what has been said; but the Truth of such a Doctrine is demonstrated. As ⟨p. 287⟩it has been demonstrated, that the Futurity of all future Events is established by previous Necessity, either natural or moral; so 'tis manifest, that the sovereign Creator and Disposer of the World has ordered this Necessity, by ordering his own Conduct, either in designedly acting, or forbearing to act. For, as the Being of the World is from God, so the Circumstances in which it had it's Being at first, both negative and positive, must be ordered by him, in one of these Ways; and all the necessary Consequences of these Circumstances, must be ordered by him. And God's active and positive Interpositions, after the World was created, and the Consequences of these Interpositions;

'Tis easy to see how the Decision of most of the Points in Controversy, between Calvinists and Arminians, depends on the Determination of this grand Article concerning the Freedom of the Will requisite to moral Agency; and that by clearing and establishing the Calvinistic Doctrine in this Point, the chief Arguments are obviated, by which Arminian Doctrines in general are supported, and the contrary Doctrines demonstratively confirmed. Hereby it becomes manifest, that God's moral Government over Mankind, his treating them as moral Agents, making them the Objects of his Commands, Counsels, Calls, Warnings, Expostulations, Promises, Threatnings, Rewards and Punishments, is not inconsistent with a determining Disposal of all Events, of every Kind, throughout the Universe, in his Providence; either by positive Efficiency, or Permission. Indeed such an universal, determining Providence, infers some Kind of Necessity of all Event; such a Necessity as implies an infallible previous Fixedness of the Futurity of the Event: But no other Necessity of moral Events, or Volitions of intelligent Agents, is needful in order to this, than moral Necessity; which does as much ascertain the Futurity of the Event, as any other Necessity. But, as has been demonstrated, such a Necessity is not at all repugnant to moral Agency, and the reasonable Use of Commands, Calls, Rewards, Punishments, &c. Yea, not only are Objections of this Kind against the Doctrine of an universal determining Providence, removed by what has been said; but the Truth of such a Doctrine is demonstrated. As