Excerpt from Wisdom the First Spring of Action in the Deity: A Discourse, in Which, Among Other Things, the Absurdity of God's Being Acted by Natural Inclinations, and of an Unbounded Liberty, Is Shewn; The Moral Attributes of God Are Explain'd; The Origin of Evil Is Consider'd The author defigns net by any thing he hath (aid, to make innovations in our common language, when we are {peaking of the Deity He is vety well contented that certain expref fions, confeorated by longiufe (fo'ch as de cree: and purpofi's, kind afiefiiom tions, compaflion, Ste.) (hould i'till keep pof feflion. Only, he thinks that theuo'ld rule ought to be applied here, that what 1s'fpoken in compliance with human weaknefs, mufl be underlined in a manner worthy Of 90d: That fuch language is popular, not pbzlojb pbical fitted to (trike the imaginatzon and pafionr, and therefore us'd; not fuch as mere rea/on would make choice of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.