to establish the vow of his wife, or to make it voide. Here is a liberty of contradiction or of exercise. Again, Chuse ye this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers, or the gods of the Amorites, and, I offer thee three things, chuse the which of them I shall do. Here is a liberty of contrariety or specification. And in all these places, here is a liberty of e∣lection, to will, to desire, to chuse their own appetite.
Secondly, the same is demonstrated from the definition of free-will, to be a free power given of chusing one thing before another, or accepting or rejecting the same thing indifferently, given to the intellectuall nature for the glory of God, in order to some end. But all these texts by me alledged, and many more do attribute unto the will, a power of chusing one thing before another, or of accepting or rejecting the same thing indifferently. Therefore all these texts do de∣monstrate that the will of man is free, not onely to do if he will, but to will, that is, to, chuse or to elect. Wheresoever, whensoever and howsoever the will acteth, it is volition, but election is the proper formall act of the will, as it is free. And it is alltogether im∣possible there should be any election, without a freedom to will. The will imployeth the understanding to consider of the most conve∣nient means to attain some desired end. The understanding doth return its judgement, which is like a bill presented to the King by