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 | Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of 'Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason?... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...human spoculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of ' Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 pages
...speculative divinity : — "Others apart sat on s hill retired, In thoughtt more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then : Of happiness and... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 pages
...rational, intelligent, and accountable creature. 24. I thus meditate on Revelation. I might " Reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end, in wandering mazes lost :" but I will not torment myself with difficulties, from which... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - Calvinism - 1853 - 322 pages
...Paradise Lost, fancies the fallen angels engaged in discussions of this nature. They " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge, absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, too, has been the character of many human controversies.... | |
 | Martha Macdonald Lamont - 1854 - 340 pages
...gone. CHAPTER II. " In discourse more sweet, Others aloft, In thought more elevate, now reasoned high, Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...charms the sense,) 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 ; 560 1 Tiphcean, — see 1. 1. 199 note. 2 Alcides, — Hercules,— so called from his grandfather... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...song charms the sense) 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...to object to inquiries that he himself so vigorously pursued. If the fallen angels " reasoned high " "Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," it is probable they only carried on speculations to which they, as well as those " who kept their first... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - Bible - 1856 - 496 pages
...by Milton : — " Others apart sate 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. Of good and evil much they argued there — Vain wisdom... | |
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