unperishable and inviolable Powers of free Intelligences. Liberty to do Good or Evil, Pre-Existence abus'd, universal Re|storation, and final Confirmation, consistent with the Harmony of the Divine Attributes, and the natural Powers of lapsed Intelli|gences, well explain'd, will remove all the possible Difficulties and Obscurity, in Nature, Providence, and Revelation.§. 13. To comprehend, ascertain and de|min with Precision, and Mathematical or Metaphysical Certainty, the real Nature, or Substance of any thing, small or great, is incompatible with Finitude, and the sole incommunicable Attribute of the Deity; and if lapsed finite Creatures, such as we of the human Race are supposed to be, could attain to it, it would destroy our Liberty to act, (whose very Essence consists in doing any thing or its contrary) and determin us infallibly to one Tenour of Action, as certainly as one Im|pulse, or one Centre of Motion in a Body, would determine it to one Direction, or in a Right Line, and consequently would counter|act our Recovery and Restoration, and render it impossible. And the most perfect Cheru|bim in Heaven, to perpetuate and eternise its Happiness, must necessarily have made a sur|rendry and sacrifice of its Will to infinite Good|ness, and its Understanding to infinite Wis|dom; and tho' all that are admitted to the 0