Takdir, Kader ve Ruhun Özgür Seçimi Üzerine

Thus the ingenious and artificial connexion of these two words joins and links together the care of God who presides, and the liberty and free motion of the soul that elects, and lets us see that these ills arrive, neither absolutely, by the decrees of destiny and providence, nor yet fortuitously and by chance; and that it is not our will alone that disposes and determines all the actions of our life; but that all the offences we commit depend upon the liberty of our will, and the punishment of them is according to destiny; and that God, who only bestows the reward or punishment, is the righteous manager of all things, and that there is nothing that happens without his knowledge. This we may clearly understand, with the example of a murderer, who happens to be punished for his crime by the laws of the country, and by fate, and by the justice of God. For the judge, who condemns the murderer, does not give him that name; but the murderer himself, because he would be a murderer, has rendered himself worthy of the judge's sentence.