The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 46
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- TLno not uhat Art it is that eivcthtbis rule. I am sure
- Et is not the Art of Reason nhich mencall Loeique. Fer Reason
- teacheth, and the example os those who onely reasen methodically,
- (rhichare the ALathematisians) that a man wohen he will de-
- monstrare therruch of nhat he istosay, must inthe first place de-
- termine ihat he mill have ro be understood by his words; which de-
- termination is called definition; whereby the sienifications of his
- vords are (o clearly (et dorn, that there can crcep in no ambi-
- enity. And cherefore there will beno need of distinctions; and
- consequentiu his rule f Art, is arass preceptos some ienorant
- man, ohem he and others have follomed.
- The Bimop rells us that Liberty is sometimes opposedto sin
- eo oppression, 10servitude; Whicb is eo rell us that they nhom he
- hathread inthis point, are inconstant in the meanine of their on
- mords; andrber fore they are licele beholdinero him. And
- this aiversiy of significarions he calls distinctions. Do men that
- bythe same mord in one place meanoncthine, aud in another a-
- nocher, andnerertellus so, distinenist? Lchintethey rather
- confonnd. And yethesares, thac chese distinctions do rereu-
- allu imply a descriprion ot crue Tibercy, wrtrich comech
- neerer che essence ofic, chanT. II. hisrorins definicion;
- Wthich definition of mine mas this, Liberey is when chere is no
- external impediment. Sothat in his opinion a mansal sooner
- understand Liberty by readine thesc mords, Rom. 6. Beins
- madetree lrom Cin, or these mords, Fsay 58. T0let the op-
- prelled eotree, or by thesc mords, Levit. 25. Tou thall pro-
- claim Liberey chroushoucche Land, than by these mords of
- mine. Liberey is the absence ot external impedimenes eo
- mocion. Alsoherrill face me donnthat l understand rhat hc
- mennes by his distinctions of liberty of Contrariecy, of Contra-
- diction, of Fixercise onely, of Exercise and Specification
- joinely. If he mean L understandhis meanine, in one sence it
- ie truc; for bythimhe means tosistoff the discredit of beine
- ableto say nochino 1o the Ouestion, as they do, that pretendine
- roknom ihe cause of every thine. sive forthe cause of nhy the
- Toadstone drarretheo it lron. sympathy, (s occult qualitu; makinq
- they CanHOECeII, (turned nom into Occulr) costand for the re-
- alt canseof that mest admirable effect. But that those mords
- sienifi
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