DIVINITY SCHOOL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

A TREATISE

ON

FREE AGENCY,

THAT THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE DIVINE NATURE IS PER-
FECTLY COMPATIBLE WITH THE MORAL FREEDOM

OF THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD;

MAINTAINING

ALSO,

A DISSERTATION

MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION,

ON THE

COMPRISING

ITS MOST REMARKABLE INTERNAL EVIDENCES RESPECTING
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH, &C.

BY

THE REV. EDWARD DOWLING, A.M.

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις Θεῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ἐιρήνη, ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἐυδοκία.”

Λουκ. ii. 14..

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; J. COCHRAN, 108,
STRAND; AND W. CARSON, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

1829. 8

DEDICATED

ΤΟ

THE MOST NOBLE

THE

MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY, K. G.

&c. &c. &c,

ΤΟ

THE MOST NOBLE

THE

MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY, K.G.

&c. &c. &c.

MY LORD MARQUESS,

to

IN presuming to dedicate this little work your Lordship, I do so with sentiments of no ordinary description. Among many inducements, however, to entertain my feelings in silence, I am not ignorant of your Lordship's dignified aversion to the incense of eulogium, as relying more on signal services rendered to your country, than on any ineffectual attempt in others to give them a suitable propriety of expression. Yet, I cannot resist the impulse of paying