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3. The Self-Determining Power of the Will is no Derogation from God.
THat which is ascribed to the Creature, doth not always detract from the Creator. For much of his Honour is in the nobleness of his Creature. It his honour to make a Creature of so noble a Faculty as is this of self-determination. And the Faculty and Exercise of it Exists no otherwise, than as upheld and actuated by him.
The denying of this Self-determining Power, in design of ascribing the more to God, is clogged with these incongruities; 1. Of limiting his Power, as not able to make a Self-determi∣ning Creature. 2. Of overthrowing his Moral Government by Laws.
Notwithstanding this noble Faculty, mans will is not in∣dependently free, but God is still Lord of it, and disposeth it according to the counsel of his own will, and can do with it as he pleaseth, by a sapiential Government, without a ne∣cessitating hand over it. Yet that there may be, and some∣times is, a Divine Predetermination of it, is not here denyed.