On the following passage from the fifth chapter: This being so, Adam cannot be said to have been brought to love of God and to his duty by pre enient pleasures, because the knowledge he had of his good and the joy he continually felt as a necessary result of the perception of his happiness in being united to God could have sufficed to attract him to his duty and make him act more meritoriously than if he had been determined, as it were, by prevenient pleasure.