Man has a measure of freedom, though a less perfect freedom than divine natures .-- CH.

III.

But how can man's freedom be reconciled with God's absolute foreknowledge?
If God's foreknowledge be certain, it seems to exclude the possibility of man's free will.

But if man has no freedom of choice, it follows that rewards and punishments are unjust as well as useless; that merit and demerit are mere names; that God is the cause of men's wickednesses; that prayer is meaningless .-- CH.

IV.