p. 78.
For even now we see, by a sad experience, that the afflicted and the miserable are not only apt to anger and envy, but have many more desires and more weaknesses, and consequently more aptnesses to sin in many instances than those who are less troubled. And this is that which was said by Arnobius; proni ad culpas, et ad libidinis varios appetitos vitio sumus infirmitatis ingenitæ.
No. Arnobius never said so good and wise a thing in his lifetime. His quoted words have no such profound meaning.
Ib.
s. vii. p. 78.
That which remained was a reasonable soul, fitted for the actions of life and reason, but not of anything that was supernatural.
What Taylor calls reason I call understanding, and give the name reason to that which Taylor would have called spirit.
Ib.
s. xii. p. 84.
And all that evil which is upon us, being not by any positive infliction, but by privative, or the taking away gifts, and blessings, and graces from us, which God, not having promised to give, was neither naturally, nor by covenant, obliged to give, — it is certain he could not be obliged to continue that to the sons of a sinning father, which to an innocent father he was not obliged to give.