Manners, Nicholas

Discourses on the following subjects: I. Man's original state. II. The fall of Adam. ... VII. Election and final perseverance. By Nicholas Manners.

York

Printed for the author, by L. Pennington; and sold by R. Spence

1780

"Not an indifferency to, or equilibrium betwixt right and wrong; for that had been to have a mixed, or no quality, a mere rasa tabula, to be impressed things extrinsical to it, without any understanding and choice of its own: Both which were foreign to the primitive state of man."

And that permanency might be rendered subservient to its real use, it was accompanied with Goodness, another property of the soul in the original state. Not an indifferency to, or equilibrium betwixt right and wrong; for that had been to have a mixed, or no quality, a mere rasa tabula, to be impressed things extrinsical to it, without any understanding and choice of its own: Both which were foreign to the primitive state of man. For, every substance having a quality, and it being highly derogatory to God, to suppose that a spirit morally evil was created by him, it was holy, prior to choice and every other thing: A necessary consequence of which was, that holiness being the ground of its moral powers, and perfections, goodness ran parallel with the whole soul. It was good in its essence, understanding, will affections, and tempers.
(p. 26)

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Manners, Nicholas. Discourses on the following subjects: I. Man's original state. II. The fall of Adam. ... VII. Election and final perseverance. By Nicholas Manners. The third edition, improved York, 1780. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.
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