He says a man may perhaps answer, that the _necessity_ of things held by him, is not a _stoical_ necessity, but a _Christian_ necessity, &c. But this _distinction_ I have not used, nor indeed ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make _stoical_ and _Christian_ two kinds of _necessity_, though they may be two kinds of _doctrine_. Nor have I drawn my answer to his Lordship’s arguments from the authority of any sect, but from the nature of the things themselves. But here I must take notice of certain words of his Lordship’s in this place, as making against his own tenet. _Where all the causes_, saith he, _being joined together, and subordinate one to another, do make but one total cause, if any one cause, much more the first, in the whole series or subordination of causes, be necessary, it determines the rest, and without doubt maketh the effect necessary_. For that which I call the _necessary_ cause of any effect, is the _joining_ together of all causes subordinate to the first, into one total cause. _If any of these_, saith he, _especially the first, produce its effect necessarily, then all the rest_ are determined. Now it is manifest, that the first cause is a necessary cause of all the effects that are next and immediate to it, and therefore by his Lordship’s own reason all effects are necessary. Nor is that distinction of necessary in respect of the _first cause_, and necessary in respect of _second causes_, mine; it does, as his Lordship well notes, imply a contradiction. But the distinction of _free_ into _free from compulsion_, and _free from necessitation_, I acknowledge. For to be _free from compulsion_ is to do a thing so as _terror_ be not the cause of his _will_ to do it; for a man is then only said to be compelled, when fear makes him willing to it: as when a man willingly throws his goods into the sea to save himself, or submits to his enemy for fear of being killed. Thus all men that do anything for _love_, or _revenge_, or _lust_, are _free from compulsion_, and yet their actions may be as necessary as those that are done by compulsion; for sometimes other passions work as forcibly as fear. But _free from necessitation_, I say, no man can be, and it is that which his Lordship undertook to disprove.