...disputes on metaphysical theology. Often we sat apart — " In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." I remember I was, for argument-s sake, Agustinian, and strenuously...

...notions of the divine nature, not wrought out, it may be true, in subtle metaphysical formularies, but not the less convincing, not the less commanding,...if not contradictory sentence. It has asserted St. Augustin against Pelagius, and disclaimed him first against Godescalc, later against Jnnsenius. We...

...figurative intimations of the New Testament, are to us infinitely more satisfactory, as infinitely mure accordant with divine wisdom, and the moral probation...by a counteracting if not contradictory sentence. sentence. It has asserted St. Augustin against Pelagius, and disclaimed him first against Godescalc....

...and is either prudently silent or cautiously guarded. ' Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Pate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute,' infallible...betrayed into a decree, it has been constrained in due lime to limit its own decisions by a counteracting if not contradictory sentence. It has asserted St....

...knowledge of divine truth. When these casuists, though of more than mortal grasp of thought ' reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.' The opinions complained of, however erroneous, are of...

...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both...

...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both...

...which mortal man is so often and so sadly perplexed as on this ? Multitudes have %' " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, indeed, is the intrinsic abstruseness of theology,...

...their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,...

...their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,...