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There was certainly a great variety of opinions on the subject of grace and free-will among the tenantry of Marmaduke; and, when we take into consideration the variety of the religious instruction which they received, it can easily be seen that it could not well be otherwise.
He seems to believe in a divine providence ordering good to man, in the soul's immortality, in free-will, in the dignity of human nature, in the dominion of reason, in the restraint of the passions as necessary to virtue, in a life of public utility, in an immutable morality, in the imitation of the divine.
He even aspired to reconcile free-will with the divine sovereignty, the great mistake of theologians in every age, the most hopeless and the most ambitious effort of human genius, a problem which cannot be solved. He went even further than this: he attempted to harmonize philosophy with religion, as Abélard did afterwards. He brought all theological questions to the test of dialectical reasoning.
Most of the time at the Free-Will Baptist Church at morning service, prayer-meetings, and such. And at home outside er in the road." "Is it this gentleman Mr. Adoniram K. Hotchkiss who er promised marriage?" stammered the Colonel. "Yes." The Colonel shifted uneasily in his chair. "Most extraordinary! for you see my dear young lady this becomes a er most delicate affair."
“Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute.” And if any of them had been found to possess no very great aptitude for such speculations, then, rather than they should find “no end in wandering mazes lost,” we should have condemned them to turn poets and “build the lofty rhyme.”
What so noble, what so Christian, as that the one nation should give up, of free-will, its attempt upon the freedom and rights of another, if once the duty were put simply before it and both together joining hands, march off, as she had already suggested, to do the noblest deed that had ever yet been done for Christianity?
As your environment they must be accepted as inevitable, because they are inevitable. But as centres themselves they have their own responsibility: which is not yours. The historic question: 'Have we free-will, or are we the puppets of determinism? enters now. As a question it is fascinating and futile. It has never been, and it never will be, settled.
I have been treated amongst you even by yourself, my revered parent, as well as by others as one who lacked the common attributes of free-will and human reason, or was at least deemed unfit to exercise them.
Because of this, that in the trust of His great love He gave us the royal and Godly gift of free-will, and our souls have proved themselves unworthy to have it; and now the creature is brought before the Beautiful, and the Holy, and the Pure, but turning away, like the sow, prefers the mire and the festering sores proceeding from such wallowings.
The vain hope that accident might defeat the very end for which, of her own free-will, she had ceaselessly plotted and toiled, vanished and left her; self-dissipated in its own weakness. She knew the true alternative, and faced it. On one side was the revolting ordeal of the marriage; on the other, the abandonment of her purpose.
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