Archelogia philosophica nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy / by Gideon Harvey ...

CHAP. XIX. Of Free-will by reason.

• 1. Wherein man doth most differ from Animals or Naturals. p. 38.
• 2. To what acts the freedom of man's will, in reference to its acting, doth extend. What the freedom of will is, quoad exercitium actus, and what Libertas Contradictionis is. ib.
• 3. What the second kind of freedom of will importeth. p. 39.
• 4. That the speculative understan∣ding in the act of speculation is practick. ib.
• 5. That the will is not constrained to will a good thing, although pre∣sent: but hath a power of reject∣ing it. ib.
• 6. That the will willeth evil for an evil end. That some men are worse than Devils. p. 40.
• 7. What the will's freedom is in speci∣fying its acts. ib.
• 8. What free-will is in refference to its faculty. ib.
• 9. Velten rejected for asserting that the will is not indifferent to each contrary. That the will is indifferent to each contradictory opposite. p. 41.
• 10. That the will is free to act, or not to act. p. 42.
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• 11. That the will is free to act upon particular objects, whether good or evil. The state of the contro∣versie. ib
• 12. That man as he is in a natural and corrupt state hath a free-will of doing a moral good, or a moral evil act. ib.
• 13. That man hath not a free-will of doing a theologick good act imme∣diately through him self without an extraordinary concurrence of God with him. p. 43.
• 14. Man hath a free-will of doing a theologick good act with an extraor∣dinary concurrence of God with him. That he hath a free-will of election. ib.
• 15. That man, as be is in a natural state, hath a free-will, through him∣self, and without Gods extraordi∣nary concurrence, to procure Gods extraordinary concurrence and assi∣stance to him in his actions. That our being and conversation in it, and all our actions depend from the ordinary concurrence of God. Rea∣sons, why God did not conferre upon him an absolute power of acting without his ordinary concourse. The cause of man's fall. That that which is only morally good will prove theologick evil at last. ib. 44.
• 16. Arguments to prove a free-will in man. A reconciliation of the Cal∣vinists with the Arminians. That man hath a rement of theologick good surving in him. The state of the controversie. The division of it. 45, &c.