The arguments for predestination and necessity contrasted with the established principles of philosophical inquiry : in two act sermons, for the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in Trinity College Dublin, 1828, with notes and appendix

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Graves, Richard Hastings

Contents

Preface, 4 gs Po oe Page i SERMON I.

ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION, OF THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL RELIGION; AS CONTRAST- ED wITH THE USUAL METHODS OF DEDUCING FROM ABSTRACT REASONING, THE DOCTRINES OF IRRESPEC- TIVE PFREDESTINATION, AND NECESSITY. ‘

Romans 1. 20. “For the invisible things of him from “the Creation of the World, are clearly seen, being ‘‘ understood by the things that are made, even his “ eternal Power and God-head.” 5

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Application of it as a Test, to the Predestinarian method, of arguing from the Divine Prescience, Page 36

-— to the Predestinarian method, of deducing the Physical Attributes, ; 4A ne ee nce to the Predestinarian method, of deducing the Moral <Attnbutes, 52

Investigation of a favourite Argument from Analogy, in support of Predestination, 117

Application of the Principle laid down, as a test, to some of the modes of reasoning, peculiar to the Necessarian Hypothesis, . 123, —— to some of the Concessions of Locke and Milner, 164

APPENDIX II.

Absolute Predestination, and Necessity, not True

Criteria of Gospel Faith.

These Doctrines maintained by Unbelievers, 174

Similarity between these Doctrines and those of the Stoics, 175

Irrespective Predestination maintained by the Mahommedans, . a9 2

CONTENTS. XI APPENDIX III.

Opposition to Absolute Predestination and Necessity, does not involve Opposition to the Doctrines of Grace. ‘a Page 179

The Doctrines of Grace maintained by many Antipredestinarians, ; 183

The Difference, between the Predestinarian, and Antipredestinarian Views of these Doctrines, turns on the Doctrine of Irresistible Grace, 186

Similarity, between the Doctrine of [rresistible Grace,

and that of Necessity, 188

Application of the Principle laid down, as a Test, to the

Doctrine of Irresistible Grace, | 189 SERMON II.

‘ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION, OF THE PRINCIPLES OF REVEALED RELIGION, Aas CON- TRASTED wirH THE USUAL METHODS OF DEDUCING FROM SCRIPTURE, THE DOCTRINES OF IRRESPECTIVE PREDESTINATIGN, AND NECESSITY.

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CALVINISTIC PREDESTINATION REPUGNANT TO THE GENERAL TENOR OF SCRIPTURE, shown in a Series of Discourses, on the Moral Attributes and Government of God, delivered, as Professor of Divinity, in the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin, with Notes and Appendix, 8vo,