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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
bably be gathered from its actual consequences. What has come of it
may suggest to us God's design in not preventing it. Now we know
that it has been overruled for good. Though in its own nature only
of evil tendency, and that continually, under the wise
superintendence of God, it has been the occasion of displays
altogether unparalleled. Though "the wrath of man worketh not the
righteousness of God," alone and by its natural influence, yet it
is his prerogative and manner to " make the wrath of man to praise
him." The very contrariety of sin to the divine character and human
happiness, has served for the more vivid and vigorous display of
God's glory. The existence of sin is supposed by the stupendous
system of redemption, which so fully manifests the wisdom,
goodness, and justice of God; and it has therefore supplied the
opportunity of modes and forms of divine excellence, and been
over-ruled as the means of benefits to the intelligent creation,
beyond our power fully to appreciate. God has appeared as, but for
it, he could not have appeared, some of his attributes being
displayed which else would have been unrevealed, and others being
displayed more strongly and impressively than otherwise they could
have been. Moral beings may have been confirmed and excited in
their virtuous and holy course, by the views presented to them of
sin, its punishment, and the moral government of God. "By the
church the wisdom of God is made known to principalities and
powers." It is not for us to say, what are the precise ways and
degrees in which other orders of creatures have derived advantage,
from the scenes and occurrences which have followed upon the fall
of man. We can see or imagine enough to make it likely that there
is much more, beyond our ken and fancy, of wisdom, jn this part of
the di...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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