leg’d for Liberty are, that without it, Man could not sin; and that God would be the author of evil as well as good thoughts[1].
And the celebrated Mr. Leibniz, that universal genius on occasion of Archbishop King’s appeal to experience, (in behalf of his notion of liberty, viz.[2] A faculty, which, being indifferent to objects, and over-ruling our passions, appetites, sensations, and reason, chuses arbitrarily among objects; and renders the object chosen agreeable, only because it has chosen it) denies, that we experience such, or any other Liberty; but contends that we rather experience a determination in all our actions. Says he,[3] We experience something in us which inclines us to a choice; and if it happens that we cannot give a reason of all our inclinations, a little attention will show us, that the constitution of our bodies, the bodies encompassing us, the present, or preceding state of our minds, and several little matters comprehended under these great causes, may contribute to make us chuse certain objects, without having recourse to a pure indifference, or to I know not what power of the Soul, which does upon objects, what they say colours do upon the Camelion. In fine, he is so far
