The book The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature 55 was written by author Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 Here you can read free online of The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature 55 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature 55 a good or bad book?
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But to fay that we perceive ia ourfetves thefe noble faculties, a power toreafonand underftand, fto reflect and confider, to will and determine our motions an& .actions as we pleaie ; and yet, 4^at all this while we have no .power in ourfelves either to think, or will, oac do, what isgooc|« i>ut that all muft be wrought in us by God, or by the Immediate agency and operarion of his fjpknt. This, I fay, is a notion^ -which, under a pretence of raifing Clod's glory, is really an in^ Jury and dimin...ution to it; becaufe, it not only denies him the glory of thofe excellencies winch are-wfible in human nature.; Sut it alfo rejprefents him, ^though an mfinitely wife, and good^ pLni holy Beiug, to have made a race of infignificant, worthlefs -creatures, who have nothing in them but |ilth and corruption. But certainly, if God made us what we are, it is no more for his glory, to fay, that he moves us, than to fay that he hath made ue •capable of moving ourfelves ; and that we are able, by the help of our natural faculties, to apply fuch moral motives, as he if 4>leafed to give us, without a h)reign impulfe and impreffion upom "US at the wme time; unfeft his glory is fo much the greater, by -how much the -more imperfedt and unlike himfelfi^ his ^creatures are made-.
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