A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of…

To illustrate this; If we should suppose a sovereign Self-moving Power in a natural Body: But that the Body is in Motion already, by an antecedent Bias; for Instance, Gravitation towards the Centre of the Earth; and has one Degree of Motion already, by Virtue of that previous Tendency; but by it's self-moving Power it adds one Degree more to it's Motion, and •oves so much more swiftly towards the Centre of the Earth than it would do by it's Gravity only: It is evident, that all that is owing to a self-moving Power in this Case, is the additional Degree of Motion; and that the other Degree of Motion which it had from Gravity, is of no Consideration in the Case, don't help the Effect of the free self-moving Power in the least; the Effect is just the same▪ as if the Body had received from it self one Degree of Motion from a State of perfect Rest. So if we should suppose a self-moving Power given to the Scale of a Balance, which has a Weight of one Degree beyond the opposite Scale; and we ascribe to it an Ability to add to it self another Degree of Force the same Way, by it's self-•oving Power; This is ju•t the same Thing as to ascribe to it a Power to give it self one Degree of Preponderation from a […] E••ilibr•um; and so much Power as the ⟨p. 67⟩Scale has to give it self an Over-balance from a perfect Equipoise, so much self-moving self-preponderating Power it has, and no more. So that it's free Power this Way is always to be measured from perfect Equilibrium.

To illustrate this; If we should suppose a sovereign Self-moving Power in a natural Body: But that the Body is in Motion already, by an antecedent Bias; for Instance, Gravitation towards the Center of the Earth; and has one Degree of Motion already, by Vertue of that previous Tendency; but by it's self-moving Power it adds one Degree more to it's Motion, and •oves so much more swiftly towards the Center of the Earth than it would do by it's Gravity only: It is evident, that all that is owing to a self-moving Power in this Case, is the additional Degree of Motion; and that the other Degree of Motion which it had from Gravity, is of no Consideration in the Case, don't help the Effect of the free self-moving Power in the least; the Effect is just the same as if the Body had received from it self one Degree of Motion from a State of perfect Rest. So if we should suppose a self-moving Power given to the Scale of a Baance, which has a Weight of one Degree beyond the opposite Scale; and we ascribe to it an Ability to add to it slf another Degree of Force the same Way, by it's self-oving Power; This is jut the same Thing as to asribe to it a Power to give it slf one Degree of Preponderation from a Eilibrum; and so much Power as the