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[THE STATING OF THE QUESTION.]

NUMBER IV.

J. D.—[True liberty, an universal immunity from all determination to one. 33

T. H.'s Answer.

J. D.'s Reply.

Different senses of the word liberty explained.

Liberty of contradiction and of contrariety, of exercise and of speci-

fication.]

ib.

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ib.

J. D.-Argument 1.-[That men have power of election, and therefore

true liberty.

T. H.'s Answer.

J. D.'s Reply.

1. Election is only of alternatives conceived possible.

2. Universal consent.

3. Holy Scripture.]

NUMBER VII.

[T. H.'s assertion, that the last act of the reason necessitates the will.

J. D.'s Reply.

1. The last act of the reason is itself an act of the will.

2. It determines the will morally, not necessarily ;

3. Nor yet to one course unalterably;

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4. Nor in such a way, that the will cannot suspend its own act;

5. Nor antecedently or extrinsecally.

6. T. H.'s affectation of new terms of art.

3. Actions which proceed from fear, may or may not be spontaneous. 48

4. Definition of voluntary and involuntary acts.

5. Necessity and election inconsistent in the same act.

6. Irrational beings neither deliberate nor elect.

7. Habitual actions voluntary.

8. How they differ from actions done in passion.]

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NUMBER IX.

J. D.—Argument 2.—[That men may do many things and do them not,

and therefore have true liberty.

T. H.'s Answer.

J. D.'s Reply.]

NUMBER X.

J. D.-Argument 3.-[That the interrogations, expostulations, and the like,

in Scripture, prove men to have true liberty.

T. H.'s Answer deferred.

J. D.'s Reply.]

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NUMBER XI.

J. D.-Argument 4.-[That every theory of necessity proves too much, in

proving Adam a necessary agent; which yet Necessitarians deny. 58

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NUMBER XII.

J. D.—Argument 5.-[That the theory of Necessity leaves no room for

reward or punishment.

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ib.

ib.

The power of God alone is sufficient to justify any action He doth. 65

There is no difference between a will active and a will permissive, or a
will causing the act and a will causing the sin.

J. D.'s Reply.

The passage of St. Paul explained, as to its general scope.
in its particular passages.

ib.

1. How Jacob was loved and Esau hated.

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2. Of the freedom of God's mercy.

ib.

3. In what sense God's glory is either the end or the consequence

of man's sin.

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4. In what sense God is said to harden men's hearts.

There is a real difference between an operative and a permissive will. 71

How God is the cause of the act, yet not of the sin of the act.
God's justice not measured by His power, but by His will, and that
the will of One Who is perfect.

ib.

J. D.-Argument 1.- [Story of Zeno :-necessity of sin implies necessity

of punishment.

T. H.'s Answer.

J. D.'s Reply.]

NUMBER XIV.

J. D.-Argument 2.-[The doctrine of necessity overthrows the frame-work

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