It is "most consonant to Reason to think this [LIfe] is only a State of Probation, and that the dispensation of Rewards and Punishments, is reserv'd for a Future Life; there being no other way to reconcile the partial distribution of things here, to that order which we know is agreeable to the Divine Will, by conformity it has to our Reason, which is a Ray of his own Wisdom."
— Trotter, Catherine, later Cockburn, (1674?-1749)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Will Turner and John Nutt
Date
1702
Metaphor
It is "most consonant to Reason to think this [LIfe] is only a State of Probation, and that the dispensation of Rewards and Punishments, is reserv'd for a Future Life; there being no other way to reconcile the partial distribution of things here, to that order which we know is agreeable to the Divine Will, by conformity it has to our Reason, which is a Ray of his own Wisdom."
Metaphor in Context
Suppose those I have before hinted at; That 'tis reasonable to think that Wise and Just Author of our Being having made us capable of Happiness and Misery, and given us Faculties of discerning and chusing Good or Evil, design'd we should be accountable for our Actions, and Happy, or Miserable, according as they are conformable, or not, to that Law which he has establish'd in our very Natures, that his Will might be certainly known to us; and since it is visibly not so, in the ordinary course of his Providence, but all things happen alike to the Righteous and Wicked, in this World, 'tis most consonant to Reason to think this is only a State of Probation, and that the dispensation of Rewards and Punishments, is reserv'd for a Future Life; there being no other way to reconcile the partial distribution of things here, to that order which we know is agreeable to the Divine Will, by conformity it has to our Reason, which is a Ray of his own Wisdom. We will suppose the Heathen convinc'd by these Arguments, or others to the same purpose, that he owns it is highly reasonable to conclude there must be a Future State of Rewards and Punishments; but he does not so well digest the Soul's being Immaterial, he has no notion of a Substance without any Extension. [...]
(pp. 51-2)
(pp. 51-2)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Trotter in ECCO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1702).
Text transcribed from Catharine Trotter, A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock. Wherein Its Principles With Reference to Morality, Reveal'd Religion, and the Immortality of the Soul, [Sic] Are Consider'd and Justify'd: In Answer to Some Remarks on That Essay. (London: Printed for Will Turner and John Nutt, 1702. <Link to ESTC>
Text transcribed from Catharine Trotter, A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock. Wherein Its Principles With Reference to Morality, Reveal'd Religion, and the Immortality of the Soul, [Sic] Are Consider'd and Justify'd: In Answer to Some Remarks on That Essay. (London: Printed for Will Turner and John Nutt, 1702. <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/23/2005
