CHAPTER III.

LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.--Terms defined--Characteristics of the above Definitions--Motive defined--Liberty as opposed to Necessity, the Characteristic of the Will--Objections to Doctrine of Necessity--Doctrine of Liberty, direct Argument--Objection to an Appeal to Consciousness--Doctrine of Liberty argued from the existence of the idea of Liberty in all Minds--The Doctrine of Liberty, the Doctrine of the Bible--Necessity as held by Necessitarians--The term Certainty, as used by them--Doctrine of Ability, according to the Necessitarian Scheme--Sinful inclinations--Necessitarian Doctrine of Liberty--Ground which Necessitarians are bound to take in respect to the Doctrine of Ability--Doctrine of Necessity, as regarded by Necessitarians of different Schools