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THE scheme of christian and philosophical necessity afferted,
preface to
CHAPTER 1.
Neceffity defined. Short account of fate, and the order ob.
served in the chain of things. Neceffity perfealy compatible
zvish voluntary.freedom.
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CH A PT ER II.
Man a compound þeing... Senjarion tbe only fource of his ideas.
The foul's extenü ve dependence on the body, during their
present state of conned on:- Annrgument, drawn from thence,
for the necefety of buuan jolil insz Queries, proposed to ibe
offerters of lif:Uleierminerin:
CHAPTER IIT.
Probable equality of human souls. Brutes themselves not merely
maierial. Necitary confiftent with the morality of actions ;
and with reward and punishment, praise and blame; and
with the retributions of ihe judgment day. No certainty,
nor posibility, of a final juarment, on the Arminian prin-
ciples of chance and Jelf attermination. Anti-necessitarians
unable to cope with infidels. Co incidence of chriftian pre-
destination with philofophical neceffity
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CH A P T E R IV.
Specimen of Scripture attestations to the doktrine of neceffiry.
Probable, that men ari, by nature, uncivilized animals.
Total dependency of all events, and of all created beings, on
God
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CHAPTER V.
Proofs that Chrift himjelf was an absolute necessitarian. This
argued from j- veral palaces in his fermon on the mount ;
from his miracles; froin vis fore knowledge; from his pro-
phecies; from his occasional aeclaracions; and frim the
whole hijtory of his life ana deuth recorded in the gospels
CHAPTER VI.
Necesity, in the moral world, analogous to attraction, in the
natural. Prodigious lengih, 10 which Des Cartes is fard 10
bave carried his idea of free-will. Mors and fatum,
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