Of Natural, Moral, and Civil Liberty. 77 eth liberty alike neceffary, and is the rule to s E x M. direEt the exercife of it, whereby we are III. accountable to ourfelves, having pleafure or`-ne^'41 pain upon a review of our conduEt, though of an inferior degree, and a different kind from that which accompanieth the reviews of confcience. This laft liberty alfo, as hath been obferved already, concerning the other (the moral) is capable of diminution and increafe ; indeed from the fame caufes it decayeth, nay is almoft deftroyed : Men become impotent, infenfible to, and unca- pable of wifely purfuing their true interefts in this world, as well as their moral per - feion and happinefs, through the influence of appetites indulged, firong paffions, cor- rupt cuftoms, and vicious habits ; and on the contrary, by a deliverance from thefe enflaving evils, they feel their liberty en- larged with a fenfible fatisfadion. Liberty being the privilege of human na- ture, an effential part of its conffitution, it equally and inviolably belongs to all men, and no one can have a right to invade the liberty of another, nor is fuch an injurious power neceffary to the private happinefs of any individual. God bath fo gracioufly or- dered our condition of being, that the ends of it may be obtained by every one, without encroaching
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