SECT.  LXVI.  Of Man’s Liberty.

I am free, nor can I doubt of it.  I am intimately and invincibly convinced that I can either will or not will, and that there is in me a choice not only between willing and not willing, but also between divers wills about the variety of objects that present themselves.  I am sensible, as the Scripture says, that I “am in the hands of my Council,” which alone suffices to show me that my soul is not corporeal.  All that is body or corporeal does not in the least determine itself, and is, on the contrary, determined in all things by laws called physical, which are necessary, invincible, and contrary to what I call liberty.  From thence I infer that my soul is of a nature entirely different from that of my body.  Now who is it that was able to join by a reciprocal union two such different natures, and hold them in so just a concert for all their respective operations?  That tie, as we observed before, cannot be formed but by a Superior Being, who comprehends and unites those two sorts of perfections in His own infinite perfection.