at the same time that he is indifferent.
If experience therefore proves the liberty contended for by the foregoing asserters of liberty, it proves men to have no liberty from necessity.
2. As the foregoing asserters of liberty, give us definitions of Liberty, as grounded on experience, which are consistent with Necessity; so some of the greatest Patrons of liberty, do by their concessions in this matter, sufficiently destroy all argument from Experience.
Erasmus, in his treatise for Free-will, against Luther, says,[1] That among the difficulties which have exercis’d the Theologers and Philosophers of all ages, there is none greater than the question of free-will. And Mr. Le Clerc, speaking of this Book of Erasmus, says,[2] that the question of free-will, was too subtile for Erasmus, who was no Philosopher; which makes him often contradict himself.
The late Bishop of Sarum[3], tho’ he contends, Every Man experiences liberty;[4] yet owns, that great difficulties attend the subject on all hands, and that therefore he pretends not to explain or answer them.
The famous Bernard Ochin, a great
