[Castigations upon the Animadversions;]-NUMBER XIII. 320 Castigations of the Animadversions ;-NUMBER XIV. Laws may be unjust. Impossibilities made by ourselves may be justly imposed, [but] not impos sibilities in themselves. ↑ Proper punishment is ever vindictive in part. Yet further of unjust laws. 322 324 . 325 If all things be absolutely necessary, admonitions are all vain. ib. . 329 . 330 . ib. . 331 . ib. . 332 . 333 334 . 335 . 339 . 341 . 343 [T. H.'s impertinencies.] What it is to honour God. What are devils in his judgment. Castigations of the Animadversions ;-NUMBER XV. [The attributes of God not all included in His omnipotence.] . 352 And [His] omnipotence, [by] making [Him] the cause of sin. 353 354 . 355 . 356 Castigations of the Animadversions ;-NUMBER XVI. T. H. still mistaketh necessity upon supposition. There is more in contingency than ignorance. Castigations of the Animadversions ;-NUMBER XVII. [Election of one out of more, inconsistent with determination to one.] Six witnesses for universal necessity answered. True liberty, a freedom from necessity as well as from compulsion.] T. H. maketh God the cause of sin. [Elicit and imperate acts of the will.] Mental terms. Metaphorical drawing. Castigations of the Animadversions ;-NUMBER XXII. Power of objects concerneth the moral philosopher. Still he seeketh to obtrude hypothetical necessity for absolute. Hearing and speaking all one with T. H. There are other motions than local. Spirits moved as well as bodies. Both bodies and spirits move themselves. Quality infused by God. [T. H.'s reiterated paradoxes.] Castigations of the Animadversions; NUMBER XXIII. The understanding and will two powers of the reasonable soul. [Election doth not necessarily follow the last judgment.] Man's willing is not like a falling stone. Absolute necessity admitteth no contrary supposition. A man may will contrary to the dictate of reason. ✓ An erroneous conscience obligeth first to reform it, then to follow it. Reason is the true root of liberty. Actions may be equally circumstantiated. Passions often prevail against reason. . 415 Castigations of the Animadversions;-NUMBER XXIV. Blasphemy in the abstract and in the concrete differ much. A man may know a truth certainly, yet not know the manner. The doctrine of liberty an ancient truth. Liberty to will more reconcileable with prescience than liberty to do. How the will of God is the necessity of all things. What it is to permit only and to permit barely. [Universals nothing but words, according to T. H.] 2. [Concerning mixed actions.] Free to do if he will, yet not free to will, is against law and logic. A necessary effect requires all necessary causes. 3. [The individual acts of brute beasts not antecedently necessitated. 4. The natural acts of inanimate creatures necessary.]. His instance of ambs-ace. His other instance of raining or not raining to-morrow. God knows all future possibilities. . ib. . 460 ib. . 461 . 462 . ib. 463 . 464 ib. 466 ib. 467 |