Zi2 The soul necessarily livings

to move any part of the body, it only wilUthe motion, It knows neither why the mo-tion is performed, or how it is performed $but if the body be rightly disposed, it willbe performed, in consequence of its volition.In like manner in its own internal opera-tions of thought and reasoning, it performsno other kind of action but ’willing • for itis necesiary in feeing the identity or diversityof its own ideas, after the will hath appliedthe perceptivity to them; as shall be shewn.No agent indeed can act, without •willingthe action; but the difference to be takennotice of here is, that the human foul inparticular, only •wills the action, and is forcedto depend upon a borrowed power for the ex-ecution of what it wills. The system of na-ture round it, as was said, is so wonderfullycontrived, that the execution of its will isperformed, blindly as to it. And it is diffi-cult to fay, whether this is a greater mark ofthe wisdom of the Contriver, and of its de-pendence upon him; or of his goodness andcondescension, in being subservient to the willand spontaneity of his creatures. But willingis a thing that costs us no pains; it is still aSpaly tp us to will a thing , though the effect-