Attention of the Reader to what I have written. I am ready to own, that in this Matter I depend on the Reader's Courtesy. But only thus far I may have some Colour for putting in a Claim; that if the Reader be disposed to pass his Cenfure on what I have written, I may be fully and patiently heard, and well attended to, before i am condemned. However, this is what I would humbly ask of my Readers, together with the Prayers of all fincere Lovers of Truth, that I may have much of that Spirit which Christ promised his Disciples, which guides into all Truth; and that the blessed and powerful Influences of this Spirit would make Truth victorious in the World. A Ge A General TABLE OF THE CONTENTS. PART 1. Wherein are explain'd various Terms and Things belong S ECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the Will. Pag. 1, &c. 28 SECT. V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of moral Agency. 38 PART Wherein it is confidered, Whether there is, or can be SE ECT. I. Shewing the manifest Inconsistence of the Pag. 44 SECT. II. Several supposed Ways of evading the foregoing 50 SECT. III. Whether any Event whatsoever, and Volition 57 66 SECT. IV. Whether Volition can arife without a Cause, 72 Mind. 78 SECT. VII. Concerning the Notion of Liberty of Will 88 SECT. VIII. Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will, 102 107 SECT. IX. Of the Connection of the Acts of the Will 117 SECT. XI. The Evidence of God's certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of moral Agents. 137 SECT. XII. God's certain Foreknowledge of the future Vo- tingence of those Volitions, as is without all Neceffity. 164 And And infers a Neceffity of Volition, as much as an abfo- lute Decree. 171 SECT. XIII. Whether we suppose the Volitions of moral PART III. 183 Wherein is inquired, Whether any such Liberty of Will S ECT. I. God's moral Excellency necessary, yet vir- Pag. 188 SECT. II. The Acts of the Will of the human Soul of rewardable, &c. 194 222 SECT. III. The Case of fuch as are given up of God to Sin, 249 SECT. VII. Arminian Notions of moral Agency incon- 260 Wherein the chief Grounds of the Reasonings of Armi- S ECT. I. The Effence of the Virtue and Vice of the lies not in their Causes, but their Nature. 269 SECT. II. The Falseness and Inconsistence of that metaphy- 278 288 SECT. IV. It is agreeable to common Sense, and the natural ment. 297 309 SECT. VI. Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine 319 SECT. VII. Concerning the Neceffity of the divine Will. 323 SECT. VIII. Some further Objections against the moral Neceffity of GOD's Volitions, considered. 335 SECT. IX. Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine 354 SECT. X. Concerning Sin's first Entrance into the World. 376 SECT, XI. Of a supposed Inconsistence of these Principles with GOD'S moral Character. 379 SECT. XII. Of a supposed Tendency of these Principles 385 SECT. XIII. Concerning that Objection against the Rea- soning by which the Calvinistic Doctrine is supported, That it is metaphysical and abftrufe. 390 The CONCLUSION. WH HAT Treatment this Discourse may probably meet 400 Confequences concerning several Calvinistic Doctrines; such as an univerfal, decisive Providence. 402 The |