. A Careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will : which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. about the Free-dom of the Will, is the main Point that be-longs to the Science of the Will. ThereforeI fay, the Importance of this Subject greatlydemands the Attention of Chriftians, and efpe-cially of Divines. But as to my Manner ofhandling the Subjed:, I will be far from pre-fuming to fay, that it is fuch as demands the Attention Ihc PREFACE. ix Attention of the Reader to what I have writ-ten.
. A Careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will : which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. about the Free-dom of the Will, is the main Point that be-longs to the Science of the Will. ThereforeI fay, the Importance of this Subject greatlydemands the Attention of Chriftians, and efpe-cially of Divines. But as to my Manner ofhandling the Subjed:, I will be far from pre-fuming to fay, that it is fuch as demands the Attention Ihc PREFACE. ix Attention of the Reader to what I have writ-ten. I am ready to own, that in this MatterI depend on the Readers Courtefy, But onlythus far I may have fome Colour for puttingin a Claim ; that if the Reader be difpofed topafs his Cenfure on what I have written, Imay be fully and patiently heard, and wellattended to, before I am condemned. How-ever, this is what I would humbly ajk of myReaders j together with the Prayers of allfmcere Lovers of Truth, that I may havemuch of that Spirit which Chrift promifed hisDifciples, which guides into all Truth j andthat the bleffed and powerful Influences ofthis Spirit would make Truth vidorious inthe AGc- General TABLE O F T H E CONTENTS PART I. Wherein are explaind various Terms and Things belong-ing to the Subjedl: of the enfuing Difcourfe. SECT. I. Concerning the Nature of the WillPag. I, ^, IL Concerning the Determination of the Will. 6Sect. III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Necef-fity, Impojfibility, hiability, &c. and of Contingence 18Sect. IV. Of the Diftin6lion of natural and moral Ne-ceflity and Inability. 28 Sect. V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of?noral Jgency, 3^ PART rhe CONTENTS. PART. II. Wherein it is confidered. Whether there is, or can beany fuch Sort of Freedom of Will, as that whereinArmimam place the Efferice of the Liberty of all moralAgents; and whether any fuch Thing ever wa^t or canhe conceived of. SECT. I. Shewing the manifeft Inconfift
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