...many wise heads have been shaken in the drawing-room, the library, and the college, at the mention of " Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; " and many an allusion to the diabolic nature of such inquiries has alarmed and perplexed the young...

...in religion which we cannot comprehend. Many accomplished minds in all ages have — "reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Milton. The counsels of the Infinite God, and the nature...

...of the grave Dutch statesmen frequently taking part in meetings, where the ministers " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." The opposition of the Gomarist clergy to this regulation...

...related to have been found baffling in another sphere — where more potent intelligences ' reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; (Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy !) And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.' Let us contrast...

...of Dort, battled it over in rain ; when, like the fallen Angels in Pandemonium, they 'reaeon'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes loot.1 Locke on the Human Understanding, is not commonly dfenied...

...Paradise Lost — " Others 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." Professors Thomas Brown and Playfair, and Dr Chalmers, Professor...

...have gone before you, " And now apart sit on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end in wandering mazes lost." Next to that of being called is the step of our being justified,...

...Such are the topics which Milton represents the fallen angels as discussing — they " Reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost 2." The end of such discussions is too commonly to unsettle...

...by having gotten so often involved in painful, thorny speculations in hell. There they reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. We hardly know whether it be easier or more common to speculate...

...action which he pos* " Others 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, Andftrundno end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting...