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Note XXI.<br />

Ita nescio quo pravo et miro modo ipsa<br />

sibi voluntas, peccato quidem in deterius mutata, necessitatem<br />

facit ; ut nee necessitas (cum voluntaria sit) excu-<br />

sare valeat voluntatem, nee voluntas (quum sit illecta)<br />

excludere necessitatem.&quot; Est enim necessitas haec quodammodo<br />

voluntaria. L. 2. c. 3. s. 5. Voluntatem dico<br />

aboleri n<strong>on</strong> quatenus est voluntas, quia in hominis c<strong>on</strong>ver-<br />

si<strong>on</strong>e integrum manet quod primse est naturae ; creari<br />

etiam novam dico, n<strong>on</strong> ut voluntas esse incipiat, sed ut<br />

vertatur ex mala in b<strong>on</strong>am. L. 2. c. 3. s. 6.<br />

Up<strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> ground, <strong>the</strong>n, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> this true<br />

will in man, he lays <strong>the</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>sibility <strong>of</strong> sin entirely up<strong>on</strong><br />

man himself : Nego peccatum ideo minus debere impu-<br />

necessarium est. Instit. 1. 2. c. 4. s. 5. Eant<br />

tari, quod<br />

mine qui Deum suis vitiis inscribere audent, quia dicimus<br />

naturaliter vitiosos esse homines. ... A carnis nostrae<br />

est. L. 2. c. 1. s. 10.<br />

culpa n<strong>on</strong> a Deo nostra perditio<br />

Resp<strong>on</strong>deant, possintne inficiari causam c<strong>on</strong>tiimaciaa pravam<br />

suam voluntatem fuisse. Si mali f<strong>on</strong>tem intra se<br />

reperiant, quid vestigandis extraneis causis inhiant, ne<br />

sibi ipsi fuisse exitii authores videantur. L. 2. c. 5. s. 11.<br />

N<strong>on</strong> extrinseco impulsu, sed sp<strong>on</strong>taneo cordis affectu,<br />

scientes ac volentes peccarunt. De Freed, vol. x. p. 709.<br />

Ad reatum satis superque voluntaria transgressio<br />

sufficit. Neque enim propria genuinaque peccati causa<br />

est arcanum Dei c<strong>on</strong>silium, sed aperta hominis voluntas.<br />

.... Intus mali sui causam quum inveniat homo, quid<br />

circuire prodest, ut earn in coelo quserat? Palam in eo<br />

apparet culpa quod peccare voluerit. Cur in coali adyta<br />

perrumpens in labarynthum se demergit ? Quanquam ut<br />

per immensas ambages vagando, deludere se homines<br />

c<strong>on</strong>entur, nunquam ita se obstupefacient, quin sensum<br />

peccati in cordibus suis insculptum retineant. Hominem<br />

igitur, quern ipsius sui c<strong>on</strong>scientia damnat, frustra absolvere<br />

tendit impietas. De Freed, vol. x.<br />

p. 711. Neque<br />

in Deum transferimus indurati<strong>on</strong>is causam acsi n<strong>on</strong> sp<strong>on</strong>te<br />

propriaque malitia seipsos ad pervicaciam acuerent.<br />

p. 727. Quum perditis exitium denuntiat Scriptura,<br />

causam in seternum Dei c<strong>on</strong>silium minime rejicit, vel

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