This _distinction_, his Lordship says, uses to be _fortified_ by two reasons, but they are not mine. The first he says, is, that it is granted by all divines, that an _hypothetical necessity_, or necessity upon supposition, may stand with _liberty_. That you may understand this, I will give you an example of _hypothetical necessity_. If _I shall live, I shall eat_. This is an _hypothetical necessity_. Indeed it is a necessary proposition, that is to say, it is necessary that that proposition should be true whensoever uttered, but it is not the necessity of the thing, nor is it therefore necessary that the man should live, nor that the man should eat. I do not use to _fortify_ my distinctions with such reasons; let his Lordship confute them how he will, it contents me; but I would have your Lordship take notice hereby, how easy and plain a thing, but withal false, with the grave usage of such terms as _hypothetical necessity_, and _necessity_ upon _supposition_, and such like terms of Schoolmen, may be obscured and made to seem _profound learning_. The second reason that may confirm the distinction of _free from compulsion_, and _free from necessitation_, he says is, that God and good angels do good necessarily, and yet are more free than we. This reason, though I had no need of, yet I think it so far forth good, as it is true that God and good angels do good necessarily, and yet are free; but because I find not in the articles of our faith, nor in the decrees of our church, set down in what manner I am to conceive God and good angels to work by necessity, or in what sense they work _freely_, I suspend my sentence in that point, and am content that there be a _freedom from compulsion_, and yet no _freedom from necessitation_, as hath been proved, in that a man may be necessitated to some action without threats and without fear of danger. But how my Lord can avoid the consisting together of _freedom_ and _necessity_, supposing God and good angels are freer than men, and yet do good necessarily, that we must examine: _I confess_, saith he, _that God and good angels are more free than we, that is, intensively in degree of freedom, not extensively in the latitude of the object, according to a liberty of exercise not of specification_.