Remarks Upon a Pamphlet [By W. Corry] Intitled, Reflections Upon Liberty and Necessity, &C., and Answers &C. to Those Remarks - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. N I. Letter from the Re marker to the Author of the Pamphlet, containing some Remarks upon the second Edition. Sir, T Have read your second edition, and find it." chiefly enlarged by a zeal against Doctor Clarke. I here send you the few following Remarks. I. You observe, Page 10, that it is by no means true men have intuitive knowledge they are free, but you assert, Page 121, that you have intuitive knowledge of the contrary; are not we equally at liberty to deny your intuitive knowledge? You II. You call Lord Bolingbroke dogmatical for saying all men are conscious of their being free, although some men are absurd enough to deny it; this is no more than your asserting of Mr Locke, the Author of the Trial of the WitneJJ'es, Dr Clarke, and the other defenders of Free Agency, that they knew they were wrong. III. In a new Note, Page 48, you repeat what you have often before said, that you will not be satisfied with less than a complete knowledge of the whole order, scheme, and design of God's providence relative to man. I think this arrogance, and not suited to our station. rv. Note, Page 5?, and Note, Page 55,--En tliusiast--This word, root and branch, is unknown in Scripture, and never, I think, used in a good sense by a Christian writer, and in the Greek plays, and other heathen authors, used to express madness ten times where it is once applied to religion. My Lord Sh AftesBury knew this better than I when he asserted Christianity to be founded on it. I deny it, and fay that Christianity was founded upon rational rational conviction, not denying that an overheated zeal soon introduced enthusiasm. Men animated by the Spirit of God are improperly called Enthusiasts. V. Page 63, It is unfair to suppose authors introduce a term for the fake of impos...