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4 Art-Jt—JDr , ^ . Prices , ' Setmpns on , fTatious Subjects . i i £ 3 ac - iiCC < W < $ ** < ted from p . 4 di } * fM ^ HE cdeveoth'Scrmon ifi this tx )~ ; JL Jume ^ ^ proves that live writer of ifci was th&vstrenuous an * i elo <|\ ient advocate of the noblest kind of freedbmh ¦
~*< , V --ttierb Is yet a liberty-, unsung " ' By poets , fcrftl by fcehators uhprais'd , Which trionifreti ^ fc ^ nnot grknt , nor all > the |) ow ' rs rOi eaU&and Bet I confed e rate taifce away . " Frorti \ £ Pet . ii . 1 $ " [ " While they premise them liberty , they themselves are the servants of corruption $ &c . " 3 Dr . Price discourses ¦/ ' on spiritual or ts
inward liberty / ' There is a moral s ^ avery ^ ** sdya he , " which ought to iJe'ftie ' . principal object of our detestation , and consequently a moral liberty which ought to be the principal ^ object of our attachment : ' aad he proposes to explain this liberty , and to
shew it ' s imp ortance and excellence . s l ^ Fe , begins with observing that the conscience of a man is the man ; the reflecting principle is our supreme principle . Liberty being an exemption from all such force as takes away
from us the capacity of acting as we tBink best , it is plain that whenever aqy passion % becomes predominant within us , or causes us to contradict crur Sentiments of rectitude , we lose our liberty , and fall into a state of slavery- A , P ^ P 69 Yerrjgd by liis appetites Ts most properly a slave . This is the case which Paul describes in Rom . vii . 22 , 23 .
*< liceatk > usaesa ma state is attended with an . infringement of liberty , and some of the £ reat * st evils of slavery . In such a state the rights of every member are liaWe to perpetual invasion . Oppresdion and violence , . prevail , and a riotous
mob governs instead of a wise and a good legislature . What is similar to this inay be said with great propriet y of that licentiousness Which take * place in the mind when the passion * become tumultuous and wngovernaWfcs That is ' ttie SvotJit fbr ^ e we can be undeiV WHifeh pr ^ feiit « r uV friM doing v&hat our duty and interest require . The like is true o ^^ tff ^ denial . It is not tb « loan whp denies feis passi ^ rw in obe-
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dience to his judgment who mosVproperffc practices self-denial , bbVjt t )> e man ^ b » does the cqntrary , * -the man , wko , 4 ^ nies hi * judgment ia obedience to his passions . This man denies what alone is truly himself . He denies htk reasorii *' The preacher next shews " that the account now given of , moral
liberty" implies no inconsistency be * tween it and natural liberty r for- the inQst perfect moral liberty takes place where there is the strongest attachment to rectitude , and the least capacity of deviating ; from it j and where therefore there is the lea ^ t degree of that indifference in which some have said that natural liberty consists . ' * Natural liberty , however , " adds I 3 r . Price , . " by no means signifies an indifference of will with
respect to the way in which we shall act , but merely the power of seif-de ^ termination , and it is alike common to all agents as such , and incapable of any variety of degrees . The greatest certainty of acting in one w r ay it * consequence of the influence of motives , can never clash with it . "
We are little inclined to engage ^ at present in a meta p hysical dtsevresion y though we confess that we cannot subscribe to all the statements and reasonings of our author on this part of his subject . He afterwards says K " this is a speculation that may be too abstruse for this discourse : ' * and here
we agree with him in opinion . &f ^ - ^ ohn iftkh ' a definrtiorrs -of Tratural and moral liberty , appear to us at once concise and accurate : we lay them before our readers" The natural liberty of man consists in having" a will to act , * ancl an exemption , from all restraints , arising from d e fects ia the instrument of action , such as in hands ^
feet , from palsies , ike . as well as frdm'tne restraints arising from natural external circumstances . " € < Moral liberty , when I have the will to act , and am not rcstrainedr by the prevalence of bad habits , which prevent t | ipt state of ' mind from being follavr ^ cj by actions or muscular motions . In this seo « r »
* Se ^ tKe definition ** will" in Hartley . Vol . I . ' [ of tke ori ^ ioal editionj p- 3 and S 71 . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/47/
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