(p)  Negant  protejlamium  plurimi  pefi  peccatum  in  homine  manfijfe
liber um  arbitrium  refpeblti  boni  moralis.  Le  Blanc,  dc  Lib.  Horn.  Arb.
circa  bonum  Morale,  Par.  2.  §  43,  (q)  Bramh.  p.  651.
(r)  Bramh.  p.  ^54,  660,  666,  (s)  Bramh.  p.  678.
ths


of  the  Will  of  Man.  3  j  5

the  Necejfit'j^  but  the  IV'ill  to  break  the  Law  that  makes  the
Aolion  Unjufl  \  and  what  7iece£ary  Caufe  foever  precedes
an  Action ,  yet  if  that  Ati'ion  be  Jorbulden^  he  that  doth  it
willingly  -may  jujtly  be  pumjhed.  And  do  not  they  fay  the
lame  who  make  it  necefTary  for  Man  in  a  lapfcd  State  to
fin  ;  that  is,  trangrefs  the  Law  of  God  :  and  yet  add,
(b)  that  this  hinders  not  that,  quo  minus  Ubere  in  pec-
catum  f;.Tatur,  &  bonum  lege  prsceptum  averfetur  &
omittat,  his  finning  and oiniitmg  the  Good  req^uired  by  the
.Law  IS  done  freely.
jthly^  And  laftly,  he  afferts,  that  (c)  Things  may  be
necejjary  and  yet  praife-worthy^  and  alfo  necejfary^  and  yet
difpraifcd  \  which  plainly  is  the  fame  with  the  Dodrine  of
thofe  Men  who  fay  that,  inevitabile  non  tollit  rationeni
meriti,  aut  demeriri,  the  inevitable  necejpty  of  an  ABion
hinders  not  the  Merit  or  Demerit^  Reward  or  Puni/Jjment
of  that  ASlion.  And  further  to  complete  the  Parallel,
obferve,

ly?.  That  Sip  havii}g  no  efficient,  but  only  a  defi-
cient Caufe,  to  lie  tinder  an  unfruftrable  Defedt  of  doing
that  which  is  after  that  Defeft  commanded,  and  un-
der a  like  Difability  of  avoiding  that  which  is  after-
wards forbidden,  is  to  be  determined  to  and  lie  under
a  NecefTity  of  finning,  that  is,  of  tranfgreffing  thefe
Laws,  becaufe  it  is  to  lie  under  a  Neceflity  of  being  thus
deficient.
