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TABLE OF CONTENTS • PREFACE • PART I: FOREKNOWLEDGE OF CONTINGENCIES INCONSISTENT WITH GOD'S HOLINESS • CHAPTER I: THEODICY ACCORDING TO DR. BLEDSOE • CHAPTER II: FAILURE OF DR. BLEDSOE'S THEODICY • PART II: THE POSITIVE PROOF • CHAPTER I: HOLINESS OR SIN DEPENDENT ON FREE VOLITIONS • CHAPTER II: CAUSES AND CAUSATION • CHAPTER II: MOTIVES • CHAPTER IV: TRUE NATURE OF FREE VOLITIONS. • CHAPTER V: NECESSARY HOLINESS OR SIN • CHAPTER VI: OMNIPOTENCE CANNOT FOREKNOW FREE VOLITIONS • CHAPTER VII: OMNISCIENCE DOES NOT FOREKNOW FREE VOLITIONS. • CHAPTER VIII: POSITIVE SCRIPTURE ARGUMENT • PART III: OBJECTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE • CHAPTER I: ACTIONS OF GOD DEPENDENT ON MEN'S FREE VOLITIONS • CHAPTER II: GOD CONTROLS MEN'S VOLUNTARY ACTIONS • CHAPTER III: ACTIONS PREDICTED WHICH MAY BE EITHER VIRTUOUS OR SINFUL • CHAPTER IV: PREDICTIONS FOLLOWING THE FREE VOLITION • CHAPTER V: UTTERANCES FULFILLED BY CERTAIN EVENTS, BUT NOT SPOKEN CONCERNING THEM • CHAPTER VI: PROBABILITIES AND MORAL CERTAINTIES • CHAPTER VII: PREDICTIONS BASED ON MORAL CERTAINTIES • CHAPTER VIII: VIRTUE DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PERSONS • CHAPTER IX: ACTIONS MORALLY CERTAIN TO BE SINFUL, BUT POSSIBLY VIRTUOUS ----------O---------- 2
PREFACE I am not entirely pleased with the style of this work. In addition to general imperfections, there is too much apparent boldness in the attack made on the views of such men as Watson, Bledsoe, Edwards, and others. I do not think it becoming in a young and obscure author to set himself up in opposition to the best thinkers of the Church in such a way as to indicate that he regards himself their equal in point of intelligence. I am afraid the boldness of style in this work will have a tendency to leave such an impression with reference to me in the minds of some of my readers. I do not claim to be the equal of these men. I do, however, exercise the right of forming my own opinion. So does everybody else; for every man must judge for himself, either in the substance of his belief or in making choice of the man or set of men whose faith he is to follow. But it may be asked why I have written in a style which is not entirely satisfactory to myself. I really do not know. I seemed to myself not to be able to do otherwise. I believe that the doctrine of the book is correct, and that the arguments by which it is sustained are valid. I also believe that the subject is of importance, and that it is right and proper for me to put forth what I conceive to be the truth on this subject for the consideration of God's people. Believing this, it was natural that I should wish to present my views as forcibly as possible; and I did not know how to express them in a different style without weakening the force of the presentation. 3
Page 1: THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD 1 or, THE
Page 5 and 6: Bayle, "is to cause it, if he can,
Page 7 and 8: imply no contradiction. Hence it is
Page 9 and 10: 3 Theodicy, p. 198. FAILURE OF DR.
Page 11 and 12: harmonies of sound. Moral agency, i
Page 13 and 14: constituted the reason why he, for
Page 15 and 16: heaven," as well as the angels; yet
Page 17 and 18: One point more from Dr. Bledsoe. He
Page 19 and 20: power not to perform. As a free act
Page 21 and 22: of the soul." But to return. A free
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Page 25 and 26: But experience may show a class of
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Page 29 and 30: "SECONDLY. If a power of Will deter
Page 31 and 32: "MOTIVE is usually considered as a
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Page 39 and 40: to gratify, the subjective motive.
Page 41 and 42: of choice. The former being a quali
Page 43 and 44: In the preceding paragraphs I have
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Page 49 and 50: 105 Will, Part I, Section IV., p. 1
Page 51 and 52: But is this all? Is a mere thought
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in preference to both the sense of
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contend for in the case of man is t
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happen otherwise. This is not the t
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133 of such events he has and can h
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On page 9 of the Inquiry he says, "
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is indissoluble--that there cannot
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is evident from the fact that, the
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CHAPTER VII: OMNISCIENCE DOES NOT F
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It is easy to prove that whatever w
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its agent cannot refuse to act it.
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It would not conflict with any noti
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that they are certainly future, or
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destroys all the force of the exhor
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for the Master's use. And we admit,
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190 Institutes, Part II., Chapter V
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the Scripture says of God's immutab
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eginning of the condition of things
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are sojourners of the Dispersion in
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emotion, and constitute the princip
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In the first place, this doctrine i
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either prove God's necessitation of
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the choice, every possible result o
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218 Will, Part II., Section XI., p.
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To this we reply, 1. The destructio
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PREDICTIONS FOLLOWING THE FREE VOLI
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he caused, permitted, or predicted,
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clearly indorses the doctrine that
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passions to bear fruit to David's p
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spoken of Judas. 1. Psalm 41:9. "Mi
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temporal, but as a spiritual power.
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nothing is said about any one's bei
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determined before to be done." 252
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Deut. 32:21, compared with Rom. 9:1
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262 probability." In this sense of
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no matter how many times it has bee
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If depravity must be freely appropr
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probable facts of the future. The p
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his moral character changes, and as
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and denominator 41,410 figures. We
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Scriptures. but the signification o
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such as the Israelites committed be
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or foreknowing their free volitions
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Christ and his righteousness, and t
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(verse 34). The prophecy, then, was
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296 Epistle 2:18." He also says, "T
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when they are so manifestly spoken
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The Protestant world does not usual
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any free volition was made by him,
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it shall not prosper" verse 27. mi
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Isaiah 2;2-4. "And it shall come to
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Other evidence that he did not poss
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From the same notion of God's ignor
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