Collins.

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DISCOURSE

DISCOU

O F

FREE-THINKING,

Occafion'd by

The Rife and Growth of a Sect
call'd FREE-THINKERS.

Mundum tradidit difputationi eorum. Eccl. 3. 11.Vulg.
Unufquifque fuo fenfu abundet. Rom. 14. 5. Ib.
Nil tam temerarium, tamque indignum fapientis
gravitate atque conftantiâ, quam, quod non fatis
exploratè perceptum fit & cognitum fine ulla dubi-
tatione defendere. Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. I.

Who shall be judg of what may be freely examin'd and
what not? where liberty may be us'd; and where
it may not? what remedy fhall we prefcribe to this
in general? Can there be a better than from that
liberty it felf which is complain'd of?

Characteristicks, vol. 1. p. 1o.

Koninklijke
Bibliothech
to's Flage.

LONDON,
Printed in the Year 1713.

Free-thinking defin'd,

pag. I

3

Ift Argument to prove that it is every

man's right to think freely.

ib.

4

2d Argument, taken from free-thinking

being the only means to arrive at per-

fection in the Sciences.

3d Argument, taken from the abfurditys

which follow from not thinking freely. 9

4th Argument shows that there can be no

rational restraint upon thinking. 19

5th Argument, taken from the benefit of

free-thinking in a very remarkable in-

ftance.

SECT. I I.

21

That it is our duty to think freely on those