to himself an equal share; but he who is wholly determined by extrinsical causes, is left altogether to the mercy and disposition of another. “Thirdly, I prove it by the texts alleged. (Numb. xxx. 13): _If a wife make a vow, it is left to her husband’s choice, either to establish it or make it void_. But if it be predetermined that he shall establish it, it is not in his power to make it void. If it be predetermined that he shall make it void, it is not in his power to establish it. And howsoever it be determined, yet being determined, it is not in his power indifferently, either to establish it, or to make it void at his pleasure. So (Joshua xxiv. 15): _Choose you this day whom ye will serve: but I and my house will serve the Lord_. It is too late to choose that _this day_, which was determined otherwise yesterday. _Whom ye will serve, whether the Gods whom your fathers served, or the Gods of the Amorites._ Where there is an election of this or that, these Gods, or those Gods, there must needs be either an indifferency to both objects, or at least a possibility to either. _I and my house will serve the Lord._ If he were extrinsically predetermined, he should not say I _will_ serve, but I _must_ serve. And (2 Samuel xxiv. 12): _I offer thee three things, choose thee which of them I shall do_. How doth God offer three things to David’s choice, if he had predetermined him to one of the three by a concourse of necessary extrinsical causes? If a sovereign prince should descend so far as to offer a delinquent his choice, whether he would be fined, or imprisoned, or banished, and had underhand signed the sentence of his banishment, what were it else but plain drollery or mockery? This is the argument which in T. H.’s opinion looks another way. If it do, it is as the Parthians used to fight, flying. His reason follows next to be considered.” ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE BISHOP’S REPLY NO. VI. In this number he hath brought three places of Scripture to prove _freewill_. The first is, _If a wife make a vow, it is left to her husband’s choice either to establish it or to make it void_. And, _Choose you this day whom ye will serve, &c. But I and my house will serve the Lord._ And, _I offer thee three things, choose thee which of them I shall do_. Which in the reply he endeavoureth to make good; but needed not, seeing they prove nothing but that a man is free to do if he will, which I deny not. He ought to prove he is free to will, which I deny. (_a_) Secondly, “I prove it by instances, and by that universal notion which the world hath of election.”