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Excerpt from Predestination Calmly Considered From Principles of Reason: In Consistency With the Nature of Things, and the Scriptures of Truth; With Answers to Seven Queries on Predestination God incomprehensible, and man vain. Invocation of the Spirit. Recapitulation and state of the argument. Further investigation. God only can ori inate. Subsequent existence and operations all depend on Him. Heir existence must have been determined by Him. Consequently all according to his eternal purpose and deter minate counsel. Otherwise, new acts of will in God. Absurdities and contradictions, if so. Destruction of God's eternit Destruo tion of his omnipresence. Any new act of will in impossible. Another consequence, an effect without a cause. 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.