Indifference, liberty

For we have ideas and principles to conceive and to prove both that God could have made man with free will, and that he could have made him without it, through the liberty, as it is called, of indifference-, and thus of a hundred other contradictory propositions. Vol. ii. Supplement d la Com. phil, ch. 24, pp. 308, 310." ... 

His [Saurin s] reflections upon the preceding passage, to the extent that they concern the subject under discussion, can be reduced first to this interrogative Who told him [Bayle] that we have ideas and principles to conceive and to prove that God was able to make man free but not able to make him free for the liberty of indifference I believe that M. Saurin would not have posed such a question... 

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