A Treatise on Free Agency: Maintaining That the Immutability of the Divine Nature Is Perfectly Compatible With the Moral Freedom of the Intellectual ... Account of the Creation (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Treatise on Free Agency: Maintaining That the Immutability of the Divine Nature Is Perfectly Compatible With the Moral Freedom of the Intellectual World; Also, a Dissertation on the Mosaic Account of the Creation

Of God; insomuch that numbers appear to infer, he must necessarily have decreed all he foresees. And to this as a cause, (for it cannot be other wise understood,) they seem to attribute all events past, present, and future.

N ow to meet such reasoners on their own principles, we undertake the respective cousi deration of the divine attributes in a manner that may be deemed, perhaps, not the most eligible.

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My Lord Marquess,

In presuming to dedicate this little work to your Lordship, I do so with sentiments of no ordinary description. Among many inducements, however, to entertain my feelings in silence, I am not ignorant of your Lordship's dignified aversion to the incense of eulogium, as relying more on signal services rendered to your country, than on any ineffectual attempt in others to give them a suitable propriety of expression.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.