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any kind is perfe(5lly extrinfic to the events known, and exerts 

 no fort of influence over them, all that can juftly be inferred 

 from the infallibility of divine prasfcience is, that the event 

 forefeen will certainly and infallibly, but not neceffarily happen ; 

 for to fecure the infallibility of divine fore-knowledge, the future 

 exiflence of the event forefeen, and not the Impoffibility whether 

 phyfical or moral of its non-exiftence, or in other words its cer- 

 tainty, but not its impoffibility, muft be fuppofed. 



All the objecSlions hitherto made to human liberty feem to 

 me reducible to thofe I have here noticed. It is needlefs to 

 adduce any argument in proof of it, as the confcioufnefs of our 

 being ourfelves the a<5live principle from which our determina- 

 tions originate, and the remorfe incident to the abufe of this 

 felf-determining power imprefs the fulleft convi(5tlon of this im- 

 portant truth. 



