APPENDIX, No. 2, indicates that any species of necessity ought to be rejected which would clash with the constitutional freedom of the intellectual world, or that moral freedom which proves (as it were) inseparably interwoven with its very constitution from the earliest dawn of its existence. The above, taken as one entire Treatise, is designed as an attempt to prove that there is nothing in the Divine Nature incompatible with the free-agency of the intellectual world. THE DISSERTATION, from the great accuracy of the Hebrew Text, proposes to obviate both astronomical and mineralogical objections to the Mosaic Account of the Creation, as regards the antiquity of the earth, &c, Parag. 13 The Rev. Thomas Scott on the former subject of the foregoing paragraph Page 190 14 Doctor Adam Clarke on the particle ♫ eth, and its implying that the material universe was originally created in an elementary state 15 On л eth being extremely comprehensive in signification and never redundant; as also on the great accuracy of the original text 16 On the terms elementary structure, in connexion with any of the works of creation, being a proper translation of eth 17 On the respective difference in meaning of the terms elementary structure as applied to things so dissimilar as the animal creation and the suns and planets of the material world. 190 18 On the universal comprehension of N eth, as to the orbs of the universe, as well as in reference to the respective sources of the entire creation 19 All the planets of our solar system were created sphere; which was accordingly created by Je- On our sun also having given light for the first time 192 194 195 196 21 This paragraph furnishes an amended translation of Gen. i. 7, 16, 25, 26, 31; Gen. ii. 2, 3, 4; Exod. xx. 11; and Gen. i. 1. 4 22 The stars and sons of God revealed in Job xxxviii. 197 199 202 7, are not synonymous; but the former designate heavenly bodies or material orbs in the same sense in which they are recorded in Gen. i. 16, by the same Hebrew word 23 On the past duration of any firmament or atmosphere not being revealed in the Mosaic Account: and on 210 213 24 On the past duration of any orb in the universe, or any atmosphere, not being revealed therein. 214 comprehension of the word 'n hashsha- arguments respecting the age of Mount Etna 216 27 Neither astronomical nor mineralogical researches could assign to any phenomenon of nature, an antiquity, howsoever remote, that would exceed APPENDIX, No. 3. . 221 1 Under the terms elementary structure no species of imperfection whatever is implied 2 On Parkhurst's erroneous view of Job xxxviii. 7 3 On our concurrence with Locke's manner of consi- 224 Page When The same means of grace may produce effects on some, The dogma, "whatever is, is right," taken as a general On election being conditional, as regards the Seventeenth A Disputation on Free-agency is said to have taken place in the College of Angrogna Extract, unfolding the arguments employed in that dis- 109 113 122 125 5 Grotius on the same subject, &c. as also Friedlibius 178 6 Liranus on the chaotic or elementary state of the 11 Bishop Patrick on the universal comprehension of 12 Ainsworth on the universal comprehension of "the heaven and the earth" taken collectively; as also 188 188 |