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... foreknowledge , and beside our design and scope . But the word contingent is abundantly used in a very dif ferent sense ; not for that whose connexion with the series of things we cannot discern , so as to foresee the event , but for ...
... foreknowledge , and beside our design and scope . But the word contingent is abundantly used in a very dif ferent sense ; not for that whose connexion with the series of things we cannot discern , so as to foresee the event , but for ...
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... foreknowledge of such events . In handling this argument , I would in the first place prove , that God has a certain foreknowledge of the voluntary acts of moral agents ; and secondly , shew the consequence , or how it follows from ...
... foreknowledge of such events . In handling this argument , I would in the first place prove , that God has a certain foreknowledge of the voluntary acts of moral agents ; and secondly , shew the consequence , or how it follows from ...
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... foreknowledge . ( 2. ) If God does not certainly foreknow the future volitions of moral agents , then neither can he certainly foreknow those events which are consequent and dependent on these volitions ! The existence of the one ...
... foreknowledge . ( 2. ) If God does not certainly foreknow the future volitions of moral agents , then neither can he certainly foreknow those events which are consequent and dependent on these volitions ! The existence of the one ...
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... foreknowledge . For scrip- ture prophecies , almost all of them , if not universally without any exception , are either predictions of the actings and be- havior of moral agents , or of events depending on them , or some way connected ...
... foreknowledge . For scrip- ture prophecies , almost all of them , if not universally without any exception , are either predictions of the actings and be- havior of moral agents , or of events depending on them , or some way connected ...
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... foreknowledge ; and so as evidences of that which is his prerogative as GOD , and his peculiar glory , greatly distinguishing Him from all other beings ; as in Isa . xli . 22 .... 26 , xliii . 9 , 10 , xliv . 8 , xlv . 21 , xlvi . 10 ...
... foreknowledge ; and so as evidences of that which is his prerogative as GOD , and his peculiar glory , greatly distinguishing Him from all other beings ; as in Isa . xli . 22 .... 26 , xliii . 9 , 10 , xliv . 8 , xlv . 21 , xlvi . 10 ...
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