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Now by not adverting to this, and alas! misled by Jonathan Edwards's book, Fuller has hidden from himself and his readers the damnable nature of the doctrine not of necessity (for that in its highest sense is identical with perfect freedom; they are definitions each of the other); but of extraneous compulsion. O! even this is not adequate to the monstrosity of the thought. A denial of all agency; or an assertion of a world of agents that never act, but are always acted upon, and yet without any one being that acts; this is the hybrid of Death and Sin, which throughout this letter is treated so amicably! Another fearful mistake, and which is the ground of the former, lies in conceding to the Materialist, 'explicite et implicite', that the [Greek: noúmenon], the 'intelligibile', the 'ipseitas super sensibilis', of guilt is in time, and of time, and, consequently, a mechanism of cause and effect; in other words, in confounding the [Greek: phainómena, t
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