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cfear , ilmintere ^ ted ; bec&use strongly opposed ^ 0 the Avrhei ^ wishe ^ and antecedent , in time to ^ 11 the Jewish vwritereafeov ? fcm ^; ^ f € tourse ^^ w >» g Jy confirming the view of tlieir meaniiiff whifch I haire giyei * . 6 W . HINCKS .
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tfan *? Tfym , what ^ er ensues , neitlxei unlroown nor unprovided for / it op ^ poses no obstacle to the exertfse of the alfcribute ^ f ^ KN ^ Mh ^* r ^ The Deity knovvsptedseljr ^ bat is , that a capacity is riven of doings ekter
right or wrong ; but to contend upon account of the Divine foreknowledge of the ultimate result , that we must cjioose the one , and could nofc have chosen the other leaves no ^ alternative , and is in effect to deny we can do
either ; thereby rendering , the Diflne prescience a nullity , it having rifr cognizance of nonentities . Compelled to act in one way rather than another , our privilege of choice ceases , and at the same time account ableness . : WitS
your valued and ingeniouiNxw ^ iptofi- > ftent I perfectly agree , * ' lpHl * ' to reconcile the Nec £ § S 3 ri 3 > n hy { M >® hesi $ with moral accountability is equally impossible and abpscd ; " but differ from him in toto 9 t ^ hen he considers it a contradiction in terras to
recondite the free agency 0 * man with the strict and unlimited omniscience of the Deity ; " believing . that to do so is- neither absurd nor impossible - Convinced of the practical ^ npOTt ^ nce of a meet elucidation of the point at issue , you will , I trust , pardon this intrusion . The above consideration s *
are submitted to the candid inquirer , who possibly upon reflection may , with me , be of opinion , that the aft ^ monly-alleged inference oj | the iucoropatibility of the free ageii ^ y of * nan with the Divine for ^ jfiowledge , is au assumed dogma of highly injurious tendeucy , as , if proved to be ^ true , it must sap the very , foundation of morals , by being utterly subversive of the moral relatioa , or at leust of such a view of it as is consistent and com ~ patible with the Chrisfian doctrine bf a future state ofretribution * SAMUEL SPURRELL .
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. ^• VJft » r H . Divme Foreknowledge and . Man ' s Free Agency . 649 V i
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r ^ Sir , 1 H AVE read . with much interest in yoiif current Number , ( p . 585 , ) JlHr . Jofenatoii ' s remarks * ' On some recent Hypothesea of the Origin of Evil / ' m&m of them are conclusive ;
but essentially differing in opinion with hj ^ iijupdff * ^ Artiip ^ ar point of practical import , I totopbse suggesU ing a fewijbiftfe Forrhia future cour sideratioia . Does he not , with many others , ^ assume tod much # and only
sanction a popular prejudice , when he says , ? ' to reconcile the free agency of man with the st | ict and unlimited omniscience of the Dfety , appear ^ to our finite minds an impQ ^ sJbility , a contradiction in terms" ? ^ Every , individual intlfoduced iato existence is
placed in circumstances over . ^ vhi ^ h ^ in the first instance , he has ao controul . The ^^ , however , to infer , he must always continue so , is a mere gratis dictum . Whether to . % e born or not is no object of choice ; but is this a reason wHy introduced into
being the subsequent development of our powers , when duly improved by ourselves , and matured , should not enable us to make elections ? The infant , ? tt birth , hungry a ^ d , requiring fp < Kl , woiild ^ ^^ l ^ pjr ^ sefttiy perish : the faculties nevextfiSIess as
yet in embryo , when subsequently developed enable the cjjtild not merely to eat , b ^ also to choose food the most suitable and agreeable to the palate ajrSic 9 fts ^ uta > n . Upon t& ^^ pdsitifen , ( apprehended to be correct ) of the Creator having in
placed us ifx gircty ^ Biarices ^ hich « real choice ojf * action is given , not at birth ^ ut subsequently dltamable hy our' #$# . ' exertions , it will be no imped i 4 e $ L * M the Divine foreknowkdge , t ^ at ^ ithpr , the one or the other
or two giv 6 ti result ^ takes place > however opposite in their nature and quality ; - m of right antt -prong * : for instance , the ^ atw having provided ior the alternative—a fi * ct fully ^ Ontinned t $ w . by the ' Gld ( btiM 9 pilu ¦ ¦
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VOL . XVIII . - T' ? iPf » O 0 " ' *¦ '
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, ciqpmm < Sxr , .+ ¦¦ Nmemb 4 ! r : & > MW& ' IN a ^ catalogufc of Frcn <^ boi ) ks , ^ old f by " hyvifa de yf ^^^ fSm B ^ xeUe « f , !*; : -wl | lc ) ii , is * unnp ^ Mt ^ : 4 ^^ s Apti ^ ns H&jr <^ ju ^ 8 . T * R' jpiW ^ ai i ^^^ ' l / 'j | nJpei : ewK ^ ^ i * f I ' P A ^ » * % ^ 0 *~ button toi vpppi b ift ^« l 67 f , i ^ &v tlie following articles : 4 f A ^ qlogie du S % tSme des Saiata
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/33/
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