Abernathy - Houston-Packer Collection BX9178.A33 S4 1748 v.4

541 SERMON III. Of NATURAL, MORAL, and CIVIL LIBERTY, GALATIANS V. I. Stand fall therefore in the liberty wherewith Chrifl bath made us free. S E R M. EVERY man is confcious of a felf de- termining power in his own mind, a 'power of choofing or refufing, of acting or forbearing to ad, within a certain fphere ; which feemeth to be infeparable from our conftitution and condition of being, and ab- folutely neceffary to our purfuing its true ends ; without it we could not be moral agents, which is our higheft character, whereby we are diftinguifhed from inferior animals, nor enjoy a rational happinefs. I 'ball not enter into any perplexing debates concerning the nature and extent of human liberty, wherein it confifteth, whether we are neceffarily determined in our elections by motives, and by the Taft judgment of the under-

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