Excerpt from Discourses on Several Important Subjects If I can hereby vindicate -the ways of God, and Ibew him to be, what bo'tl'n reafon and revelation teach us to believe, infinite: in' jufiice and truth, m goodnefs and mercy, I fhalll think myfelf happy. That Pharaoh was not a mere machine, gifting under a fatal necefiityhbut'a fi'ee agent as other men are, and could have tidied otherwife than he did 3ft, Will, I truft, appeah from his hif'cory5 and will make his example _a proper admonition and caution to us with regard to our own conduet. 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."