50. The freest agents are so determined.
If we look upon those superior beings above us, who enjoy perfect
happiness, we shall have reason to judge that they are more steadily determined in their choice of good than we;
and yet we have no reason to think they are less happy, or less free, than we are. And if it were fit for such poor
finite creatures as we are to pronounce what infinite wisdom and goodness could do, I think we might say, that
God himself cannot choose what is not good; the freedom of the Almighty hinders not his being determined by
what is best.