This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... Lis God should be brought, even in his best estate, to Bome direct and effectual test. All the orders of rational beings of whom the scriptures give any account, were, subjected, at their creation, to probationary law. But in what manner a state of probation could exist with a positive precept, is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... Lis God should be brought, even in his best estate, to Bome direct and effectual test. All the orders of rational beings of whom the scriptures give any account, were, subjected, at their creation, to probationary law. But in what manner a state of probation could exist with a positive precept, is inconceivable. Nothing else could afford an opportunity of evincing submission to the divine authority; because nothing else could present to holy creatures a case of collision between their will and the will of their God. It is doubtful whether, without some such prohibition as that relating to the forbidden tree, the devil, sapient as he was, could have rendered n temptation to sin intelligible to our first parents. For, as nothing else was required of them but what their own pure nature led them instinctively to do, they could have rto sense of restraint. In every thing else, the will of God coincided with their own propensities: so that throughout the whole range of their gratifications, there was not to be found cither the occasion or the matter of trespass. Some positive statute, therefore, which might controul their will in a given instance, was requisite to produce and preserve in their minds the sense of their dependence upon God, and his authority over them, without which his moral government could have no place. The very fact of their being under moral government, seems to have demanded some positive test of their loyalty: as the very fact of their being rational creatures, supposes them to have been subjects of such a government. The contrary supposition is mere atheism. The propriety, therefore, of a positive test of their obedience, resalted from their accountable nature. And the mora simple this test was in itself, and the more...
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