For _bees_ and _spiders_, if my Lord Bishop had had so little to do as to be a spectator of their actions, he would have confessed not only _election_, but _art_, _prudence_, and _policy_, in them, very near equal to that of mankind. Of _bees_, Aristotle says, _their life is civil_. Again, his Lordship is deceived, if he think any _spontaneous_ action, after once being checked in it, differs from an action _voluntary_ and _elective_: for even the setting of a man’s foot, in the posture for _walking_, and the action of ordinary _eating_, was once _deliberated_ of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became _easy_ and _habitual_, so as to be done without _forethought_; yet that does not hinder but that the act is _voluntary_, and proceedeth from _election_. So also are the _rashest_ actions of _choleric_ persons _voluntary_ and upon _deliberation_: for who is there but very young children, that hath not _considered_ when and how far he _ought_, or safely _may_ strike or revile? Seeing then his Lordship agrees with me, that such actions are _necessitated_, and the _fancy_ of those that do them _determined_ to the action they do, it follows out of his Lordship’s own doctrine, that the liberty of _election_ does not take away the _necessity_ of _electing_ this or that _individual_ thing. And thus one of his arguments fights against another. The second argument from Scripture, consisteth in histories of men that did one thing, when if they would, they might have done another; the places are two: one is 1 Kings iii. 10, where the history says, God was pleased that Solomon, who might, if he would, have asked _riches_, or _revenge_, did nevertheless ask _wisdom_ at God’s hands: the other is the words of St. Peter to Ananias, Acts v. 4: _After it was sold, was it not in thine own power?_ To which the answer is the same with that I answered to the former places, that they prove there is _election_, but do not disprove the _necessity_, which I maintain, of what they so elect. The fourth argument (for to the third and fifth I shall make but one answer) is to this effect; _If the decrees of God, or his foreknowledge, or the influence of the stars, or the concatenation of causes, or the physical or moral efficacy of causes, or the last dictate of the understanding, or whatsoever it be, do take away true liberty, then Adam before his fall had no true liberty. Quicquid ostendes mihi sic incredulus odi._