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. 1833 Excerpt: ...the event; nor to favor any notion of fatality, or destiny independent of the voluntary conduct of men; but I do mean to deny the existence of ab-- solute chance, and to put the event, in common with all other events, in the sovereign arbitration of God. I mean to deny the Arminian view which enthrones eternal chance ...
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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. 1833 Excerpt: ...the event; nor to favor any notion of fatality, or destiny independent of the voluntary conduct of men; but I do mean to deny the existence of ab-- solute chance, and to put the event, in common with all other events, in the sovereign arbitration of God. I mean to deny the Arminian view which enthrones eternal chance and exalts the autocrasy of the creature "above all that is called God, or that is worshipped;" and puts the Creator in a posture of waiting ignorance or sincere discomfiture, rather than of dominion "over all, blessed for ever." All this as a fact, and as a doctrine both of reason and scripture, I believe. It is an article of faith, properly such; not a rule of action. It is one of the "things that we are to believe concerning God;" not otherwise one of the "duties that God requires of man." Our duty is one thing: the government of God is another. It is also of immense importance to ourselves, and of most auspicious bearing upon our own salvation, to know the truth, and especially to love the truth, in this sublime relation. No Friend however can, I think, "receive the love of the truth" in respect to the proper dominion of the Eternal--intelligently receive it, without ceasing to be a Friend. Though Barclay makes some exceptions in favor of singular individuals, such as David, Paul, and others, yet the system which he strenuously upholds is diametrically opposite to the position at the head of this paragraph: in this he is true to the doctrine of the society, but false to the oracles of God. "Let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written." Without this enthronement of the divine sovereignty in our faith, we shall worship a being, as God, who is not the true and " ...
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