APPENDIX III.

Opposition to Absolute Predestination and Necessity,

does not involve Opposition to the Doctrines of

The Doctrines of Grace maintained by many Antipre-

destinarians,

183

The Difference, between the Predestinarian, and Anti-

predestinarian Views of these Doctrines, turns on

the Doctrine of Irresistible Grace,

186

Similarity, between the Doctrine of Irresistible Grace,

and that of Necessity,

188

Application of the Principle laid down, as a Test, to the

Doctrine of Irresistible Grace,

189

SERMON II.

ON THE

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION,

OF THE

PRINCIPLES OF REVEALED RELIGION, AS CON-

TRASTED WITH THE USUAL METHODS OF DEDUCING

FROM SCRIPTURE, THE DOCTRINES OF

PREDESTINATION, AND NECESSITY.

IRRESPECTIVE

Cor. x. 11. "Now all these things happened unto

"them for ensamples: and they are written for our

"admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are

"come."

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PREFACE.

EVER since Bacon prepared the way for the emancipation of Philosophy, from the trammels of the Schools; by proposing to substitute experimental inquiry for verbal disputes, and inductions from facts for hypothetical speculations; the physical sciences have made a steady and glorious progress. Those also who have applied a similar method to the philosophy of the human mind, or the investigations of natural theology, have obtained a proportionate degree of success.

Notwithstanding however, the present improved state of Philosophy, the advocates of Absolute Predestination, are too apt to neglect the examination of facts and experience, and to bewilder themselves in the reveries of abstract speculation.1

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1 See Appendix II.