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Treatise on Free Will

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

How to reconcile human freedom with God’s providence and decrees: freedom is known naturally, yet God governs our wills, and Bossuet proposes four ways of reconciling the two truths. Composed for the education of the Dauphin and published in 1731. Lachat edition (1864).

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXIII, page 011. The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.