So were created, nor can justly accuse Their maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 57by John Milton - 1899 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain, unforeknown, &c- &c. rescind the decree, because that people hath not kept the condition... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...their fate, As if Predestination over-rufd Their will, disposed by absolute decree . '-'. •• .,. Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their...Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no lesiprm'd certain, unforeknou'n.' «• . ' ' ' « K Now take it the other way, and suppose that, foreseeing... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 394 pages
...over-rut .d Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed r Their own revolt, not I ; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no lesiprov'd certain, unforeknown.' • >'; .;••:'. :•• t " Now take it the other way, and suppose... | |
 | Theology - 1826
...stumbling-block and a savour of death. Vol. I. pp. 84, 85With these views accord the sentiments of his poem : " they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I ;...fault, Which had no less proved certain, unforeknown. Par. Lost, III. 95. On the external efficiency of God, the first work of God noticed, is the generation... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass authors...themselves in all Both what they judge, and what they chow*! for so I form'd them free : and free they must remain, Till they enthral themselves ; I else... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-ruled Then: will disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their...Both what they judge, and what they choose ; for. so I formed them free : and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves ; I else must change... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 548 pages
...to right belong'd, So were created. — So without least impulse or shadow of fata Or aught by tne immutably foreseen They trespass, authors to themselves...all, Both what they judge and what they choose : For 10 I forra'd them free ; and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves. I else must change... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...thejr making, or their. fa^ As if pred.estina.tion over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge. They themselves. decreed. Their...had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain i in fun-known. So without least impulse, or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably... | |
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 pages
...? " As if predestination over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge ; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain uuforeknown." A. Why my good Sir, those harmonious lines are composed entirely of assertions without... | |
 | Thomas Charlton Henry - 1829 - 356 pages
...their making, or their fate: As if predestination overruled Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their...had no influence on their fault ; Which had no less prov'd certain, unforeknown. So, without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or ought by me immutable... | |
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