Excerpt from A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions: Of That Freedom of Will, Which Is Supposed to Be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame Ever, in that doflrine he agrees with Amiinians, and departs from the current and general opinion of Cal niaills. If the Author of that Elfay be the fame as it is commonly afcribed to, he, doubtlefs, was not one that ought to bear that name. But however good a Divine he was in many refpefls, yet that par ticular Arminian doflrine which he maintained, is never the better for being held by fuch an one; nor is there lefs need of oppofing it on that account; but rather is there the more need of it; as it will be likely to have the more pernicious influence, for be ing taught by a Divine of his name and charafier; fuppofing the doftrine to be wrong, and in itfelf to be of an ill tendency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.