Chap:

Having now shewed y^e unsatisfactorynesse of y^e vulgar Doctrine concerning L: A: or Freewill w^ch makes y^e Essence of it to consist in nothing but indifferency to act or not act w^ch is commonly called Liberty of Contradiccion & indifferency to doe this or y^t Good or Evill y^t is called Liberty of Contrariety & y^t ^\so y^t this Indifferēcy still remaines/ after all thinges are put w^ch a|we|re requisite to accon, & not withstanding all Motives & engagem^ts to determine one way rather than another y^t y^e Will continu{eth}|ing| still Ꝑfectly ^\thus/ indiffer^t ill y^t very mom^t in w^ch it hath detemined|th| it selfe; w^ch is all one as to place Freewill in an infinite Contingency &fortuitousnesse of acting w^ch these Philosophers also make to be y^e greatest Ꝑfection of any Being. Wee shall proceed in y^e ^\next/ place to give a more satisfactory & intelligible acc^t of this {natu^l} Power or Faculty called Freewill.

First therfore it is plain y^t Freewilled Beings are such things as are not wholly passive to ^\other/ Agents without them & mocons &\or/ impulses made upon them as inanimate Bodys are, machins & Neurospasts, w^ch are all prefectly ἑτεροκίνητα. But Freewill implys Autokinesy, w^ch indeed it were superfluous to mencon; were it not for this, y^t y^e Greatest Antagonists of Freewill both Antient & Moderne, lay their foundacon here, y^t all Mocon & action in y^e World w^tsoever, is Heterokinesy & y^t there is noe Originall action any where y^t Springs from y^e Agent it selfe, but y^t \it/ all action takes its beginning from some other beginning without y^e Agent, & therefore y^t not onely Brutes, but y^t Men also are meer Machins & Neurospasts.

But wee have shewed before y^t ther is aking of Autokinesy in all Cogitacons, & therefore if Brutes be not meer senselesse Machins, but are Cogitative they must needs have some action or Energie w^ch springs from within themselves w^ch is all one as to say y^t they must have somthin in them above \{local motiōs}/ Matter & Body. But this doth not yet reach to y^e nature of L: A: or adequately expresse y^e same, because all Cogitative Beings are not Freewilled frewill being an higher kind of Autokinesie y^t is peculiar to some Cogitative Beings onely.

Wherefore in y^e next place Freewilled Beings are not onely elevanted above y^e Condicon of meer corporeall Machins w^ch is a priviledge y^t belongs to y^e Lowest kind of Cogitative Beings w^ch we call Brutes, but they have \allso/ a Higher Autokinesie or Selfe-actvitie in them {whereby they are} \being/ elevated above y^t low Dull & Stupid Life of Brutes, w^ch are led by the {illeg} by Ꝑticular phansys & Hormetick inclinacons passions or appetites