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

[I, Cit,l rewitd f de- ad, a Img at rlaer¢; n oa id a6 stu, mar raa, feria fa, data uara .r ra ms frig Ida, Of Natural, Moral, and Civil Liberty. 55 underftanding, or if the will in determining S E R M. itfelf hpeoffeffed of an abfolute indifference III. chufing independantly of anmyotives, or any judgment formed upon them; but only obferve, that as every man is confcious to himfelf of volition and choice, fo free- dom is plainly implied in the ideas which are expreffed by thefe words ; a freedom which is equally the privilege of all man- kind, as being effential to thceonflitution of human nature ; thfirseedom or liberty, fo diflindlion ake, I call natural. But the higheft privilege of mankind, under the notion of liberty, is, a power cfhufing and a ±ing according to the dire Lion oufn- derflanding, and the original fenfe of good and evil; of doing what ttohemfelves ap- peareth to be belt, mboecftoming thneai-r tuarned, mcofntducive toheir perfec- tion ahnadppinefs : And tlhiibserty mbeay termed moral. To aft fpontaneoufly, but indeliberately, belongeth ttobhreutal kinds ; in following their inflints and appetites, without any fcruple or hefitation, they fol- low their nature, and fatisfy ll its demands: But their is a fuperior capacity in man, to confider, to examine, to compare together, and judge upon avariety of motives, pre- ferring fome to others ; efpecially, it is to E lie

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