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• It is a freedom from co-action, and not from necessity.
• How do they repel the frightful consequences which infidelity deduces from it?
• The true conclusion from the foregoing review of opinions and arguments.
• The true conclusion from the foregoing review of opinions and arguments.

• But if the deeds proceed from the will, then it at once attaches a responsibility to them.
• Does the insignificance of an egg-shell appear from the fact that it cannot contain the ocean?
• This is the cause of volition, and it is impossible for the effect to be loose from its cause.
• But how does evil proceed from abstract forms; from the ideal region of the possible?
• We are not to suppose from this, however, that he forbears to give a definition of liberty.
• Why then did God create beings which he knew from all eternity would commit sin?
• Thus his notion of freedom was derived from matter, and supposed to consist in the absence of friction!
• There be who perpetually complain of schisms and sects, and make it such a calamity that any man dissents from their maxims.
• If we are to be saved from an insupportable fate only by such means, our condition must indeed be one of forlorn hopelessness.
• If we raise our eyes to such a source of virtue, its intrinsic lustre and beauty seem to fade from our view.
• We cannot concur with these celebrated writers, and we would deduce a far different conclusion from the speculations of necessitarians.
• According to his definition of liberty, it is merely a freedom from co-action, or external compulsion.
• Leibnitz does not mean that evil proceeds from abstract ideas, before they are embodied in the creation of real moral agents.
• This is a consequence which the logical mind of Melanchthon did not fail to draw from his own scheme of necessity.
• The unsound principles from which, if true, the fallacy of the eternity of future punishments may be clearly inferred.
• On the contrary, he has stated and enforced the great argument from cause and effect, in the strongest possible terms.
• The will may be absolutely necessitated in all its acts, and yet the body may be free from external co-action or natural necessity!
• On the ground of reason, he believes in an absolute predestination of all things; and yet he concludes from experience that man is free.
• The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
• This demonstration, it is needless to repeat, would save any scheme of fatalism from reproach, as well as the doctrine of the reformers.
• He does not, for a moment, call in question "the great demonstration from cause and effect" in favour of necessity.
• When the people departed from his kingdom, God stood by him and moved him to pursue after them with increased malice and revenge.
• In order to save his doctrine from reproach, Edwards has invented a distinction, which next demands our attention.
• He expressly declares, that in order to constitute man an accountable agent, he must be free, not only from constraint, but also from necessity.
• It clothes man, as he came from the hand of his Maker, with the glorious attributes of freedom; but to what end?
• At first view, it certainly looks very much like doing evil; and it is not at once distinguishable from the temptations ascribed to Satanic agency.
• We shall not trace it up to God, as before, but we shall banish all virtue quite out of the world, and exclude it from the universality of things.
• Thus the liberty of the will is made to consist not in the denial that its volitions are produced, but in the absence of impediments which might hinder its operations from taking effect.
• The fall of man, says Calvin, was decreed from all eternity, and it was brought to pass by the omnipotence of God.
• If we can meet this argument at all, it must be either by showing that no such consequence flows from the scheme of necessity, or by showing that the scheme itself is false.
• The inference which we have just mentioned as necessarily flowing from the doctrine of Edwards, has actually been drawn by some of the most illustrious advocates of that doctrine.
• Whether, in other words, the dispositions or qualities which Adam derived from the hand of God, partook of the nature of true virtue or otherwise?
• He first determined and fixed the origin of all our ideas; and every idea which was not seen to arise from this preestablished origin, he declared to be a mere chimera.
• But to do justice to these illustrious men, they did not attempt, as many of their followers have done, to pass off this freedom from external co-action for the freedom of the will.
• How little insight he had into it on any scientific or clearly defined principle, is obvious from the fact, that he took shelter from its difficulties in the wild hypothesis of the preexistence of souls.
• The idea of liberty thus deduced from that which is purely and perfectly passive, from an absolutely necessitated state of body, was easily reconciled by him with his doctrine of fate.

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