Man was predestined to have free will.

If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

I?m pleading under my own free will.