“Liberty” and “necessity” are consistent, as in the water that hath not only “liberty,” but a “necessity” of descending by the channel; so likewise in the actions which men voluntarily do: which, because they proceed from their will, proceed from “liberty”; and yet, because every act of man’s will, and every desire and inclination proceedeth from some cause, and that from another cause, in a continual chain, whose first link is in the hand of God the first of all causes, proceed from “necessity.” So that to him that could see the connection of those causes, the “necessity” of all men’s voluntary actions would appear manifest. And therefore God, that seeth and disposeth all things, seeth also that the “liberty” of man in doing what he will, is accompanied with the “necessity” of doing that which God will, and no more nor less. For though men may do many things which God does not command, nor is therefore author of them; yet they can have no passion, nor appetite to anything, of which appetite God’s will is not the cause. And did not His will assure the “necessity” of man’s will, and consequently of all that on man’s will dependeth, the “liberty” of men would be a contradiction, and impediment to the omnipotence and “liberty” of God. And this shall suffice, as to the matter in hand, of that natural “liberty,” which only is properly called “liberty.”