No. 8. None are excluded from being among the Elect, but those whom the Energy of divine Wisdom and Righteousness, cannot (in conformity with the divine perfections) recognise among that happy number No. 9. In God, there is no existing cause why all the moral or intellectual world might not eventually be among the ever-blessed in the regions of immortality; and hence we ascribe to him the Energy of universal and unbounded Benevolence Page 21 22 No. 10. The moral or intellectual Creation was originally rendered susceptible of acting in conformity to the Wisdom that is perfect No. 11. A divine express Revelation, or divine Inspiration, or both, being indispensable, the First Cause supremely governs his intellectual Creation No. 12. The measures of the divine Legislator and Governor of the Universe, may vary, notwithstanding the immutability of his divine Nature No. 13. Of all the moral evils that have existed, or that could exist, in the intellectual Creation, not one could be 24 26 . 27 otherwise than the effect, whether immediately or re- Page 28 The Creator is not the congruous cause of any moral evil 29 In all cases of moral evil, man is intellectually free, and There is nothing in the divine Nature incompatible with the accountable free-agency of the intellectual world. And the intellectual creation, as originally rendered susceptible of acting in conformity to the wisdom that is perfect,-is to be viewed as it was when called into DEFINITION V. Of the terms indivisible and indivisibility 36 VI. Of the terms eternally indivisible, and indivisibly omnipresent Preliminary Observations in reference to the Trinity 36 37 38 No. 3. Page Any eternally-operating Energy (or modus operandi) of God, could not be the cause of any thing created; if it would require (howsoever minute or enlarged) only a finite period of operation to produce its effects No. 4. 11 Any eternally-operating Energy (or modus operandi) of Corollary I. II. III. IV. Observations 13 14 The morally distinguishing energy of God, is derived from his eternal discernment of whatever is wise or unwise, right or wrong, in all events without exception. 19 No. 6. The eternal energy of divine Wisdom and Righteousness, is derived from God's eternal Discernment, that all his measures will freely prove in full accordance with his all-perfect Wisdom 20 No. 7. The eternal Energy of divine Wisdom and Righteousness, is not incompatible with a benevolent Energy being ascribable to God A BRIEF OUTLINE OF SOME PROMINENT PECULIARITIES IN THIS VOLUME. PART THE FIRST takes a new view of the divine attributes, and maintains that the incongruity of the non-elect with the source of election, proceeds from a cause which exists not in the divine mind. APPENDIX, No. 1, is intended to intimate that the doctrine of the eternal Trinity is not incompatible with that of reason, which admits only one indivisible First Cause of all things. PART THE SECOND proves Election to be conditional on the authority of St. Paul and other Scriptural testimonies, together with that of the Seventeenth Article of the Established Church of England and Ireland. b |