Oh! certainly not, if hell were not attached to acts and omissions, which without these very graces it is morally impossible for men to avoid. Why will not Taylor speak out?
Ib.
s. xiv. p. 85.
The doctrine of the ancient Fathers was that free will remained in us after the Fall.
Yea! as the locomotive faculty in a man in a strait waistcoat. Neither St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will. In the only Scriptural sense, as concerning the unregenerate, it is implied in the word will, and in this sense, therefore, it is superfluous and tautologic; and, in any other sense, it is the fruit and final end of Redemption, — the glorious liberty of the Gospel.
Ib.
s. xvi. p. 92.
For my part I believe this only as certain, that nature alone cannot bring them to heaven, and that Adam left us in a state in which we could not hope for it.
This is likewise my belief, and that man must have had a Christ, even if Adam had continued in Paradise — if indeed the history of Adam be not a
mythos