An Enquiry Into the Doctrines of Necessity and Predestination: In Four Discourses Preached Before the University of Oxford, With Notes, an Appendix ... of the Church of England (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Doctrines of Necessity and Predestination: In Four Discourses Preached Before the University of Oxford, With Notes, an Appendix Seventeenth Article of the Church of England

From these premises he infers that where the doctrine of necessity is firmly believed, and made use of as a practical principle, motives cease to operate. As suming then that in a future state our faculties will be enlarged, our under standings enlightened, and our appre hensions quickened, he concludes that a continual progress in knowledge must at length terminate in absolute inactivity and this conclusion, that activity, which throughout nature is Observed to ao company intelligence, Should be de stroyed by the rational faculties being enlarged, he justly thinksis so para doxical, as to throw much discredit on the principle from which it is by fair reasoning deduced.

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