3/21/2024 0 Comments Dr richard finchI t may here be proper to take notice of a new Argument, urged in its full Strength, and with all the Advantage of Rhetorick and Eloquence, by the most ingenious Dr. How can these Reasons operate as to a Part, and have no Influence as to the Remainder? The more I reflect upon the Doctrine, and view it in every light, the more terrifying and deformed it appears: and there is no Argument, short of God's Sovereignty, that will relieve the Difficulty which admitted, will bring on and multiply ten thousand greater Evils. Besides, if Man was first enslaved by the Devil, not of Force, but by Fraud and Temptation and J esus C hrist be a kind of Chieftain, set up against Antichrist his Method of Recovery must be as extensive as the Fall-Why does he save some? but as they are Objects of Mercy, and to recover, with a just Indignation, Souls, originally G od's own, out of the Hand of an Usurper, Tyrant, and Destroyer. T he same Goodness (if these Gentlemen will allow it was Goodness) which prompted the Almighty to make Man such an excellent and blessed Creature in the Beginning, must also prevail with him, to look even on Adam himself with an Eye of Pity and Compassion, after he had sinned and much more must he be inclined to provide for the Restoration of his Off-spring, who themselves had not actually sinned, but yet had their Natures impaired by the Fall. Show Phone Number (501) 623-7900 4.1 (12 Ratings) Share Link Copied Profile link copied to clipboard Dr. If Man's Nature be impaired by the Act of another, G od, as a just and good Being, will either abate of the Rigour of his original Law, or replenish and restore our decayed Powers. Richard Finch, DO is a Family Medicine Specialist in Hot Springs National Park, AR. We are what we are by Necessity, strict Necessity: and though it may be called moral Necessity, in order to palliate and distinguish it from that which is natural it operates on us, to all Intents and Purposes, equally the same and the giving it a milder Name, looks like a sophistical Artifice. Creation itself, or the Effect of Adam's Sin, and Abuse of his intellectual Powers.
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