Arguments in favour of necessity, drawn from the Divine Prescience, are not easily got over by those who defend a contrary doctrine; and, perhaps, they do not admit of a direct answer. But in p. 14, there is a difficulty started, of equal magnitude on the other side of the question, and equal difficulties on opposite sides, must destroy each other's effect. Would not, then, an impartial critic, either have obviated, or have allowed the force of this difficulty; particularly as the two suppositions are brought so close together, and set in opposition to each other in p. 19 and 20. But the passing it over in silence, comes near to an acknowledgment that it appears insuperable.

The proof here given, that fore-knowledge in God, is of the same nature with foreknowledge in man, is precisely of the same kind with that by which God might be proved to be under the influence of necessity. But in this case, the absurdity of the consequences attending such a conclusion,

is so glaring, that we cannot hesitate a moment in rejecting the arguments brought in support of it. What confidence then can we place in them with regard to the other?

If the above observations be of any weight, the criticism in the Review upon this Tract must be partial and uncandid.

W. FLINT, Printer, Old Bailey, London.

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EPISTLE DEDICATORY

ΤΟ

JAMES GREGORY, M. D. F. R.S.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS,

PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,

AND

FIRST PHYSICIAN TO HIS MAJESTY IN
SCOTLAND, &c. &c. &c.

SIR,

I HAVE been recently occupied in discharging the last sad duties of mortality to the remains of an old and dear friend, formerly a promising pupil of yours, but now mingled with the assembly of the grave; a victim to that fell scourge of genius, and opprobrium to the medical art -pulmonary consumption.

In arranging the few effects, pertaining to my late friend, which consisted chiefly of