A Comparison of Mahometism And Christianity in Their History Their Evidence An
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It would cease to be a moral means of conversion, if it left no exercise for the judgment, and no choice for the will. As so much de- pends on a man's own conduct, in order to constitute him a moral agent, a subject of rewards and punishments, we cannot conceive any scheme that would necessarily prevent the admission, and in some situations the pre- valence of error, without a total alteration in the plan of moral government. The faculties that may be employed to a good purpose, are liable to b...e perverted to a bad one. Divine wisdom from time to time corrects and restrains the abuses that arise from their mismanage- ment: but to prevent them altogether, would require such a perpetual intervention of a miraculous power, and such a constant bias irresistibly preponderating over the mind, as would destroy the very design of the gospel, which is intended to produce a voluntary service by mo- ral motives; and not a necessary effect by a constraining and irresistible impulse. P. 46. I. Ig. Thus he foretold', and the event justified the prediction, ^ That the church was even in the earliest periods infested with heresies of the most pernicious kind, cannot be denied.
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