What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

In order to this there must be something besides a general tendency to action; there must also be a particular tendency to that individual action.—If it should be asked, why the soul of man uses its activity, in such a manner as it does;

Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. But my first conviction was not so.

He best knows his own heart, and what His own ends and designs were in the wonderful works which He has wrought.

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

the Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.

Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

By particular and occasional moral Inability, I mean an Inability of the will or heart to a particular act, through the strength or defect of present motives, or of inducements presented to the view of the understanding, on this occasion.—If

affair.—The mind being a designing Cause, only enables it to produce effects in consequence of its design; it will not enable it to be the designing Cause of all its own designs.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.