As it is very evident in itself, that the acts of the Will have some Connec-
tion with the dictates or views of the Understanding, so this is allowed by some of
the chief of the Arminian writers ; particularly by Dr. W 7 hitby and Dr. Samuei
Clark. Dr. Turnbull, though a great enemy to the doctrine of necessity, allows the
same thing. In his Christian Philosophy, (p. 196,) he with much approbation
cites another philosopher, as of the same mind, in these words : " No man (says an
excellent philosopher) sets himself about any thing, but upon some yiew or other,
which serves him for a reason for what he does ; and whatsoever faculties he
employs, the Understanding, with such light as it has, well or ill formed, con-
stantly leads ; and by that light, true or false, all her operative powers are direct-
ed. The Will itself, how absolute and incontrollable soever it may be thought,
never fails in its obedience to the dictates of the Understanding. Temples have
their sacred images ; and we see what influence they have always had over a

Seat part of mankind ; but in truth, the ideas and images in, men's minds are
e invisible powers that constantly govern them ; and to these they all pay
universally a ready submission."

But whether this be in a just consistence with themselves, and their own
notions of liberty, I desire may now be impartially considered.
