all its glory. I mean the metaphysical school of our northern
metropolis, whereof Hume, and Smith, and Lord Kames, and several
others among the more conspicuous infidels and semi-infidels of that
day, were the most distinguished members. They triumphed in the book
of Edwards, as that which set a conclusive seal on their
principles," &c.--_Institutes of Theology_, vol. ii, ch. ii.

48 Of Liberty and Necessity.

49 Ibid.

50 Mill's Logic, pp. 522, 523.

51 Mill's Logic, book ii, chap. v, sec. 4.

52 Metaphysics of Ethics.

53 Knapp's Theology, p. 520.

54 Reid's Works, note, p. 611.

55 Id., p. 599, note.

56 Progress of Ethical Philosophy, p. 275.

57 Moehler's Symbolism, p. 117

58 Novum Organum, book i, aph. 69.

59 Institutes, book i, chap. xviii.

60 Institutes, book i, chap. xvi.

61 Id., book ii, chap. iv.

62 Id., book i, chap. xviii.

63 Id., book iii, chap. xxiii.

64 Id., book iii, chap. xxiii, sec. 4, 7.

65 Institutes, book i, chap. xiv, sec. 16.

66 Theodice, p. 365.

67 Institutes, book i, chap. xiv.

68 Institutes, book iii, ch. xxiii.

69 Id., book i, ch. xviii.

70 See Moehler's Symbolism.

71 Theodicee, p. 85.

72 Id., p. 264.

73 Theodicee, pp. 89, 90.

74 Progress of Ethical Philosophy, p. 114.

75 Inquiry, p. 246

76 Inquiry, part iv, sec. ix.

77 Letter vii.

78 Inquiry, part iv, sec. ix.

79 Edwards's Works, vol. vii, p. 406.

80 Theodicee, p. 327.

81 Howe's Works, p. 1142.

82 On the Will, part iv, sec. ix.

83 Emmons's Works, vol. iv, p. 372.

84 Ibid., p. 388.

85 Ibid., p. 327.

86 Institutes of Theology, vol. ii, chap. iii.

87 Emphatically as this conclusion is stated by Spinoza, and harshly as
it is thrust by him against the moral sense of the reader, he could
not himself find a perfect rest therein. Nothing can impart this to
the reflective and inquiring mind but truth. Hence, even Spinoza
finds himself constrained to speak of the duty of love to God, and
so forth; all of which, according to his own conclusion, is
irrelative nonsense.

88 Original Sin, part ii, chap. i, sec. i.

89 Original Sin, part ii, ch. i, sec. i.

90 Inquiry, part iv, sec. i.

91 They are accustomed to boast, that no man ever excelled Edwards in
the