Yet Calvin himself distinguishes the hidden from the revealed God, even as the Greek Fathers distinguished the [Greek: thelaema Theou], the absolute ground of all being, from the [Greek: Boulae tou Theou], as the cause and disposing providence of all existence.
But I disapprove of the plan and spirit of this work, (Deism Revealed.) The cold-hearted, worldly-minded, cunning Deist, or the coarse sensual Infidel, is of all men the least likely to be converted; and the conscientious, inquiring, though misled and perplexed, Sceptic will throw aside a book at once, as not applicable to his case, which treats every doubt as a crime, and supposes that there is no doubt at all possible but in a bad heart and from wicked wishes.

Compare this with St.Paul's language concerning the Jews.
So again, pp.

225, &c.

of this volume.

Do not the plainest intuitions of our moral and rational being confirm the positions here attributed to the Deist, Dechaine?
Are they not the same by which Melancthon de-Calvinized, at least de-Augustinized, the heroic Luther;--those which constitute one of the only two essential differences between the Augsburg Confession and the Calvinistic Articles of Faith?
And can anything be more flittery and special-pleading than Skelton's objections?
And again, p.