Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Jackson, D. D, Vol. 9 of 12: Sometime President of Corpus Christi College, Ofxord, and Dean of Peterborough 2. That men and angels might (by the power of God, or special contrivance of his providence) have been secured from all possibility of falling into sin, is a position amongst rational men unquestionable; but it is not so, whether men or angels being so secured from all possibility of Sinning could have been intrinsically or formally righteous, or by the eternal rules of justice and equity itself truly capable of everlasting punishments or torments, or of joy and happiness everlasting. The. 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.